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• Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Which is essentially every where, that’s life.

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    • Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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      • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But that’s IF the government would build said housing. Or it takes it away from owners which is fucked. I’m all for government owned housing if they will build it and maintain it. It could lower housing prices and rents, your right if they build enough of them where needed

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    • seblin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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      • piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Pay with money? No. But with blood when someone 3lse decides they would like your home.

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      • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can say that about a lot of things, matter of fact now, you have to pay for housing, there is no fantasy land where you don’t and won’t in our life time

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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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      • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think you don’t realize how slow it will be to get to that point. I am a land lord, what’s the government going to do, take my land and property?

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