Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

• 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Many people live in cities without owning their house. So they never see those bills.

  In my country it’s illegal for the landlord to include utilities in the price.
  It’s the responsibility of the tenant to subscribe to those services in their name.
  It’s done to prevent landlords from cutting utilities on a whim or to pressure late payments.

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• rmrf@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  In the USA, most power bills are the tenants’ responsibility. In the USA, virtually all internet connections are the tenants’ responsibility.

  The locality hosting the services could also pass a law requiring the tenants to either bear responsibilities for, or be included in, all utility related billing.

  A lot of arguments in this thread seem to be ignoring this as a solution to the legitimate problems they’re raising.

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