Eh, bed stores are a particularly ridiculous waste of resources. The average bed store sells like 6-8 mattresses a month, which is inefficient and dumb.
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crashfrog@lemm.ee 6 months agoThe point is that there are beds that nobody are using while people are forced to sleep on the ground.
If you let a guy sleep on it, then you can’t sell it. Who would buy it? The bed isn’t “not being used”, it’s not being used as a bed.
It’s about resources not being used as efficiently as they could be
There’s nothing inefficient about this allocation of resources.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 6 months ago
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Showroom beds are usually not the beds that are actually sold. The beds that get sold sit in storage.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The chances that person has bedbugs is non-zero. The chances they haven’t showered are also not exactly low. Putting them in a showroom bed could ruin it.
I really want a solution to house people because it’s an untenable situation, but ‘let them sleep in a bed showroom’ is not a good solution.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Why are you gargling capitalist balls?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes. There’s nothing more capitalist than wanting to house the unhoused.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 months ago
100% property taxes on all properties that have sat empty for more than X% of the time the property has existed
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The problem there is that sometimes ownership of a property is either lost or unclear. The woman across the street from us died. Her house has sat empty for years. No one seems to have claimed ownership of it. I doubt anyone is paying property taxes on it because whoever does own it doesn’t seem to be aware of it.