Comment on Landlords are parasites
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoIf short term apartment ownership is unattractive because of the hassle of buying and selling, we should look to reduce that hassle, not replace ownership with a parasitic financial relationship.
No thanks. I’ve lived in 6 different US states in the past 6 years. I understand I’m an extreme edge case, but I’m a huge fan of renting apartments at this stage in my life.
Now maybe in this hypothetical society with better housing and whatnot, I wouldn’t have felt the need to hustle and grind and work my way up the corporate ladder and move around as much as I did… But for my situation, yea I like renting
How would you reduce the hassle of apartment ownership?
I don’t know. I don’t know much about apartment ownership, it’s not really an option where I live, so I don’t know much about the process.
Do I need to have a solution for improving a process in order to recognize that the process needs improvement though?
I mena it’s good to know how hard such improvement might be. It’s like if soneone said instead of nuclear fission why don’t we just use nuclear fusion. Like yeah that’s better but not really a simple or quick solution to the problem right now
Sure, I’m not under the impression that the solution is simple or quick. Still worth working towards improvements anyways though, don’t you think?
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 1 day ago
It’s only a parasitic financial relationship when the rented property is on the hands of a private owner. We could totally have collectively/publicly owned housing rented at maintenance costs, which would 100% remove the exploitation.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Municipalities renting out apartments is really common where I live. I think this sort of differences are why the discussion about landlords seems often strange to me. Here renters have good protections and rights, there’s plenty of municipality owned or otherwise low-profit marging letting organizations and so on.