Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’

Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh do go get fucked.

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  • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My last renter texted me and told me the toilet wouldn’t flush. She said she “took it apart” but couldn’t fix it so it needed to be snaked out. I go there and a neighbor told me she set a can of cat food on the tank for her kitten to eat and it knocked the can into the bowl. She tried to flush it down. Her boyfriend shows up and tells me the same story. She only took the tank off (nowhere near where a clog would be) and she replaced it without replacing the gasket so it had been leaking water. Once I knew what the problem was I fixed it in 30 minutes. Her keeping the truth from me made it take a lot longer and cost more. I charged her $300 less than the property next door in a trendy neighborhood because I didn’t want to be "part of the problem ". Long story short, not everyone is cut out to be a home owner.

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    • jibbist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sounds like a moron, but fixing a toilet once doesn’t make it a job. It’s passive income like an investment

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      • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Own a house then get back to me

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    • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a good thing we’ve got people like you making that choice instead of leaving it to everyone to decide

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    • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your claim to be a worker because you did half an hour’s work in a month for a landlord’s income that’s so large you can afford to discount it by £300 a month isn’t the winning argument you think it is.

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    • vxx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My toilet and drain is maintained well enough that it would flush some cat food if needed.

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    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      because I didn’t want to be "part of the problem "

      And yet, you’re still a landlord… 🤔

      I guess the greed won over, eh?

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• Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could you imagine a world where the word rent never existed. I bet it would be awesome.

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  • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d rather the word homeless never existed

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    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then how about you stop contributing to the problem by hoarding properties you don’t live in and exploiting those who can’t afford to, for profit?

      No?

      I didn’t think so…

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure you mean that you’d like a world with no landlords and not a world where short term housing solutions don’t exist. No rent would imply the latter. Unless you know of a way to do it without paying rent?

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    • basmati@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Community housing that’s fully tax funded. Common houses or public houses have been around for millenia, until the last couple hundred years really.

      Oh and “the tragedy of the commons” is literally propaganda made up by a literal feudal lord.

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      • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How did that work when it came to deciding who gets the more desirable housing versus the less desirable ones? Or those who are not from the area and don’t pay taxes to cover the housing?

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