• fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    Oh my sweet summer child.

    We’d all love to live in a socialist utopia where a house to live in is the right of all citizens, but sadly that’s just not a reality here on planet earth.

    “Shelter” may be a right, as in if you’re destitute you’ll get food and something to keep the rain off, but a nice house to live in is not a right.

    Ultimately landlords are providing capital, which you need to pay for a nice house. Providing said capital is not in itself immoral.

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      6 months ago

      I wonder why so many people dismiss a better world as imaginary, when the thing that prevents such a world is, in fact, imaginary. We made up money. It is fake, imaginary, not fucking real. I can prove it too. You go into nature, and find me money. You can’t. You can find currency, but not money. No animals have a damn mint. We made that shit up, and we can collectively decide that it doesn’t matter.

      Grow up and stop believing in the money fairy

      • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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        6 months ago

        What a silly thing to say.

        Try telling someone who is destitute that money is imaginary and see how they react.

        Even if we could collectively decide that it doesn’t matter youre still going to need some between now and then.

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      6 months ago

      Can you explain your last sentence? I don’t see how landlords are providing capital, at all. If anything, landlords are depriving you of capital, and using your money (rent) to gradually gain capital (increase in ownership of property, through mortgage payment) for themselves.

      But maybe I’m misreading you somehow.

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      6 months ago

      The alternative of everyone living in communist bloc apartments built by the lowest bidder sounds so good.