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I thought for a second this was the price to buy, that’s how fucked the market is.
If anyone has access to a genie wish, might I suggest:
“I wish any rental that saw the rent on it raised by more than twice the inflation rate, once it is no longer occupied, would instantly burst into flames and burn to ashes in a way that damages no other rental unit.”
Granted, landlords insurance pays for a new building and lost rent. Now renting it for even more money.
Maybe for the first few, but after awhile it would be common knowledge that raising rents too much magically causes building to burst into flames. Insurance doesn’t cover intentional acts. If you deliberately burn your own house down, insurance isn’t going to cover that. Plus every insurance policy would exclude coverage for this sort of entirely predictable and preventable fire.
Except when it keeps burning down due to the ongoing wish and is no longer insurance.
I wish it was illegal for a single entity or organization to own more than three residential buildings at one time
This is why Luigi must be acquitted.
Wow I’m quite surprised the fires haven’t affected that unit in particular
Sometimes fires like this flare up much later and in the weirdest places. Hopefully when noone is home.
Sometimes landlords spontaneously combust. Isn’t that neat?
Someone should fix that
This is America! It’s not a horrific tragedy with lives lost, many others seriously injured or afflicted with new long-term health problems, their most precious possessions reduced to ash, countless people being made homeless with absolutely no options for places to go… it’s an opportunity!
It seems to me the only way to win at capitalism is to lose all sense of compassion and empathy. When a population turns from cooperation to wholly exploiting each other it can only lead to a breakdown of society - which is something I fear we’ll witness in the next four years.
How much you bet once those homes are rebuilt, it’ll stay like this?
To be fair this isn’t specifically a landlord thing. This is a capitalism thing. And it’s happening everywhere and every day. From your grocery store to your pharmacy to your university. The essence of capitalism is to exploit all opportunity for as much value as possible.
This is the system humans have chosen to live under. And zeroing in on the landlord isn’t productive.
Humans didn’t choose it just like humans didn’t choose feudalism. They formed over time as production and technology got more complex, meaning society is bound to change again and again in the future as well.
Humans have chosen other systems, such as communism. Although that required action and effort, and those systems are arguably worse than capitalism.
Either way, doing nothing other than bitching on line makes it a choice
They are not arguably worse than capitalism when it comes to economic systems capitalism is at the bottom of the barrel.
Well, I remember Russians standing in bread lines. You’re probably just finishing puberty.
The wealthiest nation in the world cannot feed its hungry, cannot house its homeless, cannot provide livable wages to its working class. Capitalism is a failed experiment that has failed every time it’s been attempted. And here you are trying to argue for an economic system that you are not part of, you are not capitalist, you are being exploited by the capitalist as much as anyone else. The only difference is that you revere your chains.
I remember not long ago cars lined up for 10, 15, 20 miles to get food here in the US. And I’m probably old enough to be at least your father, As you lie there in a state of arrested development.
It is better to feed the poor than to not do so. Insulting the level of cognitive development of someone for pushing back against your statement is, ironically, childish behavior.
Liberals love infantilizing people they disagree with
Communism is not “arguably worse than Capitalism” unless you were of the ruling classes before revolution, like the Tsars in Russia or the Slavers and Fascists in Cuba that worked under Batista, or the Landlords in China. In fact, the dissolution of Socialism in Russia and the implementation of Capitalism led to 7 million excess deaths, and today has skyrocketing disparity and poverty when compared to the Socialist system.
chosen to live under
We are forced to live under capitalism and its exploitation. Landlords are part of the problem.
You remembering them will not inconvenience or affect them at all.
Hang All the Landlords
Mao, is that you?!
Mao would have made me face the wall for being an anarchist
Surely, the difference will be donated to a fire victims fund. In this way, landlord steals from the rich to redistribute to the poor.
This is bad but it’s rich people fighting rich people - kind of as it should be.
You’re fucking cuckoo if you don’t think this is illustrative of a larger action that has/will also “trickle down” to the renters in studio apartments - “I came here to exploit human tragedy for profit and chew bubble gum… and I can’t chew bubble gum with this mouth full of caviar” -landlords in LA right now
Supply and demand, unfortunately.
