Manmoth

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[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What is an example of decommodifying?

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (19 children)

What should people invest in then? How is land ownership handled? Etc etc etc

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Why should it be anything but a personal investment?

What do mean? I don't see how what I said negates that.

Isn't it better for everyone to decommodify housing?

Not really no. Commodfication is why things used to be cheap. High [insert item here] prices are directly related to money printing, corporate welfare and regulations that are designed to raise the barrier of entry for normal people.

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (52 children)

Real estate should be considered an investment. It's one of the few things people invest in that is actually valuable. It's the speculative and labrynthine financial markets that are the problem in that regard.

The only reason mega-renters like Blackrock and Vanguard are able to monolithically buy property in the first place is because of dubious speculative earnings and government bailouts.

It's not surprising that home ownership was actually a lot higher 60 years ago.

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Podverse! I'm pretty sure it's the only FLOSS app that has implemented all the podcasting 2.0 features. The only thing it's missing is Android Auto :(

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Is it reasonably high quality? I'm thinking of getting one but have been scared that it's a big meme because I havent seen any longterm reviews. It seems like parts could fall off etc but I've never held one so I don't know.

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

Just watch Fern Gully instead lol

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml -3 points 4 years ago

Mothers and Fathers each get one day of recognition a year.

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 years ago

Six activists are cleared of causing criminal damage despite a judge saying they had “no defence”.

How scientific.

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