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• Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  100% they’re bad tenants. They’re also people who never want to own, they’re people that will never be able to afford to own. There will always be a need for land lords

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  • Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well… No? You’re assuming a system where you have to pay for housing.

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    • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which is essentially every where, that’s life.

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      • Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sure, under our current system. But you said there will always be a need for landlords, which I take issue with. But housing doesn’t have to operate the way it does now. There’s a variety of ways to pay for people to have housing under a money-based system, like through taxes. The soviet union had housing cooperatives. Hell, you don’t even need to go that far, housing prices are currently so high because we allow massive real estate corporations to buy up property to artificially inflate price. Government regulation on real estate as an industry would serve to lower housing prices. At the very least, make it so they can’t just sit on vacant homes.

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      • seblin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Only within a relatively recent stretch of history, before that you only needed to pay for fancy stuff (think pyramids or castles or whatnot)

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  • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bad tenants and people who want to rent exist, but the rest I don’t agree with

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  • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah that’s stupid. Why do you presume to know that there will “always” be a need for landlords? People thought there would always be kings until democracy developed, people thought there would always nobility until capitalism emerged and rendered the land-based social relationships that defined feudal nobility meaningless. You lack imagination.

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    • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok, in our life times we will always need landlords. I know future generations could have a different setup. We can’t product the future. Maybe AI will lead to government built housing and UBI. We don’t know.

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      • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Are you 80? I absolutely plan on living past the end of (at least most) landlordism.

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