Comment on Rent is theft
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 days agoI actually know a landlord who owns a farm and rents it out, and does so precisely for the reasons you state. They don’t want the land to go to some soulless big company
They charge a pittance in rent, enough to cover insurance and taxes. The farmer would pay about the same if they owned the property.
They got contacted by a company wanting to build a datacenter, and got to say “hell no”.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
This is mental that we sell arable land to build expensive, low quality condos or big buildings like a data center.
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes, absolutely. Easy to turn viable farmland to bullshit data center, almost impossible to do the former. The datacenter boom causes us to act against our collective interests.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Cities would rather pollute a new parcel of land than fix the contamined ones.
There is a city nearby that has an abandoned industrial district and they plan on building a new industrial district instead of razing the old one and decontaminate it.
And shocker, they want to make the new district on farm land.