Comment on ‘Zombie Offices’ Spell Trouble for Some Banks - The New York Times

Lath@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They should stop buying avocado toast and make their coffee at home!

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• don@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s really not that hard.

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• Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They should sell the buildings…

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  • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, I’ve thought about it and we have a housing shortage and an excess of offices. Seems like a solid solution. Takes a lot of work to make an office into a home, but it’s more profitable than leaving them empty.

    But no, that would help people, and the cruelty is the point.

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    • vexikron@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep, Ive been saying this for years now as well.

      We have giant mostly empty office buildings which could be converted into mostly apartments, with even make shift permitted commercial zones for basically street vendor / convention booth style shops every 10 floors.

      Instead it apparently makes more sense to not do this because it makes more sense to keep them empty, heated and lit 24/7, as basically a way to prop up the retail property market.

      Capitalism is a farce, and it has already doomed us all: we have now breached the 1.5 C warming barrier, even more rapidly than most of the worst case scenarios predicted. Permafrost in Siberia and Northern Canada is already thawing and releasing methane.

      Enjoy the collapse of human civilization in your own lifetime as people and governments continue to squabble and combat each other over scarcer and scarcer resources as our entire way of life becomes too expensive to maintain.

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      • lud@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Converting offices is expensive and complicated. Zoning laws also makes it even harder.

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    • StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a solid solution only if someone ponies up the money to pay for the incredible effort it takes to convert an office building into residences. Waving your hands in the air and telling someone else to pay for it is not a good argument.

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      • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are you watching me? How did you know I was waving my hands on the arm?

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But nobody wants those buildings.

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    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They do, just not at the prices they want to sell them at.

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• jvrava9@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Skill issue

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