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A Boring Dystopia
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If nobody is allowed to own more than one property, should everyone be forced buy? Where would renters get apartments from?
A functioning government?
Ah, so the government is your landlord now?
It's good, because Americans have so much trust in their government right now.
Good thing I'm not an American.
It's handy sometimes, isn't it ;-)
Actually it's a fucking nightmare having your closest neighbour threaten your sovereignty on a daily basis.
It's even worse when half the population actually endorses the behaviour.
I don't hate Americans I'm just disappointed. I hope my children aren't going to die in a trench on the same field I farm
I'm sorry, yeah that must be awful.
Are there a lot of Canadians who support it then?
Look into public housing in Finland.
I am from Finland and public housing is shit.
Public housing was shit, maybe.
Or are all of the articles like this staged? And all of the data is made up?
So they look like link 1, and they result in that... Seems great.
Giving homeless people homes != “public housing”
We do consider having a place to live a human right, but that doesn’t mean the houses are especially good or well maintained compared to commercial options.
They aren’t always even the cheapest - those can usually be found from private renters who own one or two apartments they rent.
Ok, so I have your apparent anecdotal experience, vs. hundreds of articles citing a ton of data. I think I'm gonna go with the latter, thanks.
The government. They used to provide housing in the UK and then they stopped and stopped building new houses and now they’re unattainable for most.
No rentals, houses will be gifted to everyone and magically conjured out of thin air.
Your sarcastic inability to see a different path does not mean a different path doesn't exist.
Well, so far all of the "different paths" turned out to be completely crap at working. But surely the next time will do it.
...what different paths have been taken? Certainly not enacting a tax code that would make multiple unit ownership progressively unfeasible. That's just a start. Of course, that would take the electorate to actually be educated and informed in their voting and stop reelecting these geriatric ghouls on both sides of the aisle. To be fair (to be faaaiiiirr) I share a lot of your nihilism.