Comment on Rent is theft
Riverside@reddthat.com 4 weeks agoYes, you can choose to die on the streets instead. What’s your point?
Comment on Rent is theft
Riverside@reddthat.com 4 weeks agoYes, you can choose to die on the streets instead. What’s your point?
cinoreus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
At the same time, if you choose to live in an economy where you don’t pay rent, you will barely find anyone outside your family willing to lend you a home.
And replying to your previous comment, idk about America, but in other parts of the world, people outside of affluent class have homes, and rent is close to or less than 4% of property value annually, not 6-8% Americans are used to. That’s likely because corporates don’t buy property here at scale they do in America.
Riverside@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Yes, that’s why housing ownership should primarily be socialized, and access to affordable rent should be a right guaranteed by the public administration as much as healthcare and education.
That’s still a worthless metric, though, rent should be proportional to construction costs + maintenance, not subjected to markets.
cinoreus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You’re fundamentally asking for a different society. To be very honest, the Idea is great, I just don’t see how it’s gonna be implemented. Also you gotta be happy with pretty minimal houses, but I guess people in twenties who are just starting with life, this could be all they need.
Yeah Ik this is core communist ideology, I don’t have anything against communism. I just am saying what you are asking is very different from what society is today.
Riverside@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Well, yes, I’m a communist, but seeing the housing in literally every western capitalist country suffering from the same issues, I have 0% of hope that the issue of housing will be solved within capitalism. Capitalists are in power and they’re the ones owning the housing, so they simply will prevent legislation from passing unless forced by worker organizing