Prunebutt
@Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Nevermind the drink I'm holding 11 hours ago:
I wanna see an alternative ending of the Lion King where the hyenas don’t stop at Scar when they rise up against their rulers.
- Comment on Nevermind the drink I'm holding 19 hours ago:
Good lord. Really didn’t expect this guy in the Epstein files.
- Comment on Heaper, new tools to organize docs, photos [YouTube] 1 day ago:
That’s a nice offer. But I’m using nixos containers to top it all off. I’m sure it’s possible to have a master-db on the core os and the containers access the central db… but I have hardly any time to do the stuff, I’m reasonably competent in as it is. Managing nixos containers and learning how to coneect the databases for using postgres in the intended way… idk. 😅
- Comment on Heaper, new tools to organize docs, photos [YouTube] 1 day ago:
Most selfhosting services employ a database in their own docker (separate) container.
- Comment on Heaper, new tools to organize docs, photos [YouTube] 3 days ago:
Sorry, meant
cp. - Comment on Heaper, new tools to organize docs, photos [YouTube] 3 days ago:
The fact that I have to use a more complicated tool that
cd. - Comment on Heaper, new tools to organize docs, photos [YouTube] 3 days ago:
Postgres? Sorry. If it needs a database, it’s probably not for me. Can’t be asked to keep another database backed up.
- Comment on I'm in! 4 days ago:
Context?
- Comment on i mean 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Not that limit 2 weeks ago:
Just here to commen, on the weird spreadsheet format (of that oooooold joke)
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 weeks ago:
Do you know the difference between profit and income for a personal landlord?
I was asking about the qualitatve difference, not the quantitative.
Effectively not much.
Citation needed. Im guessing that the minimum is more than a few hundred Euros a month net profit per rented out unit. That’s nothing to sneeze at for one household. Especially considering how low effort one unit is (can’t be more than a few hours a month).
It’s not just an investment for them, it’s a good chunk of their job and their income.
For private landlords: Definetly not. The needed labour for owning a unit is negligible in comparison to a full-time job.
They can rent their property at a rent lower than upkeep because they are gaining capital that they can eventually sell.
This might be an ideal but it contradicts with your statement below. And even if: At some point someone wants to make profit off the property. Your “argument” only kicks the bucket down the road until some buyer (and I wonder who can buy inflated house prices) will increase the rent for profit.
Rent-seeking is the most popular form of gaining income, since it requires no work (except for upkeep) and has virtually no risk, compared to a market.
Larger landlords can even do better due to the economy of scale for upkeep costs.
Those larger landlords want even more return of investment. Don’t tell me you’re so naive to think that no one wants to actually make money of the people with the least power in this dynamic: the tenants.
Unfortunately, landlords will often try to make the most and so maximize rent based on the market.
Aha! So now, we’re leaving this ideal world of yours. Why do you think that’s actually an anomaly of the system?
The market should balance this out (ie if being a landlord is so lucrative, more people should become landlords and that would increase the competition and costs would go down). But many people don’t want to figure out all the details, borrow large sums of money, take on the risk, take on the stress of managing tenants, etc. - which just shows the value added by the landlord is real.
You ignore that the housing market is very inflexible. People always need housing, so there is a natural demand, along with incredibly prohibitive costs of entry. People can’t afford any homes (that’s the housing crisis), because property values are through the roof, driving up rents! You act as if people are too “lazy” to become landlords, but most can’t even afford their own homes!
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 weeks ago:
IYou apparently had to unmake that whole discussion, huh? :/
All the best to you, @kameecoding@lemmy.world
I fould that discussion rather interesting. It’s a shame you didn’t. :/
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 weeks ago:
If a co-op takes the loan, aren’t they just becoming a landlord?
No, because the people living in these places own a share in the coop. It’s distributing the load of repaying the loan on several shoulders and once it’s payed off. The rent becomes basically only the upkeep (rather than a sourge of income for the owners… because the owners are the ones who pay the “rent”).
And who does the work to organize it - are they paid?
Depends on how the coop manages it. But they could theoretically use the rent as payment for someone who manages the co-op.
Isn’t that just like a landlord taking profit?
No, cause that’s not profit. That’s part of upkeep. Do you know what “profit” is?
If you look at the government as just a collective of the people
I don’t agree with that abstraction, but ok.
then there’s no magical entity ‘eating the risk’ - it just means the people get screwed over and/or someone doesn’t get paid for their work.
What are you talking about? Institutions aren’t “magic”. Risk of loss gets easier to manage if more people chip in. That’s the whole reason why insurances exist. And why diversifying a financial portfolio is the best strategy for banks. Yes, some will not be able to pay back their loans. But you can buffer that with interest by the ones that do pay them back.
Yes, you can use a handyman to fix your roof, but you have to pay them. And if you can’t afford to, you what - take more loan from the government which endlessly prints money?
And your alternative is that these people who can’t afford a handyman (or fix the roof themselves) can afford rent? Do you think paying rent every month is cheaper than hiring handymen? And evensif it were like that: how would the landlord afford the handyman? Why would they rent out their property, if rent was lower than the cost of upkeep? Your scenario doesn’t add up.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 weeks ago:
Who takes out this loan? The person who wants to live in the home?
Yup. Or coops.
What if they can’t afford to pay it back?
What if someone can’t afford rent? I’d rather see the government eat the risk than see people go homeless.
Isn’t paying interest on the loan the same as paying rent
No, because if you pay rent, your rent becomes someone else’s capital. If you pay off the debt, you invest in your own property.
except now you’re stuck without being able to move
Who says you can’t transfer the home to someone who buys in? That’s an advantage of coops.
and no one else is there to fix your roof when it needs it?
Landlords usually don’t do that. They hire handymen to do this, so why canwt that be done by the person who lives there?
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 weeks ago:
That sounds like an assumption and you know what they say about that.
I’d be happy to hear which country isn’t currently capitalist. And the other thing is less of an assumption and more of a rule.
Who decides who owns the house though? Is it first come first serve? How is that not capitalism just with extra steps?
… the people who live there own it. Capitalism would require the ability to keep others from using the house while you don’t use it. You wouldn’t be able to sell the house/appartment.
If my family lucks into a place that becomes a highly desirable location how is that fair to generations coming after?
Your family requires a place to live, doesn’t it? You’re describing capitalism, btw. Why should your family be thrown out if they still need the house?
Also who paid for this house in the first place and how if not with the fruits of their labor, aka work ?
The community built it. Or it was already there (houses already exist, you know). I should have specified that I have a problem with wage slavery in order to pay some landlord in order to live somewhere. That’s completely different than investing resources and labour to build a house.
You didn’t answer the simple question of how you achieve this magical utopia where people don’t have to work to avoid being homeless, you just said a bunch of nice theoretical ideas with no realistic way to implement them?
Give people places to live and let the community build housing based on need, rather than profit. Nothing magical about that. I’ll specify again: I don’t want to abolish doing mental/manual labour, but working for a boss so that they pay you a wage based on the profit they made on your labour: Wage slavery. And the answer isn’t simple. Otherwise, we’d be living in this world already.
Okay, do you know what “need” is? Who decides what a need is?
The people do. I think doing so in consumer councils would be a good idea, but I’m not the arbiter of how to achieve this. Do you think that human needs are unknowable?
Do you need to live in the city you live in currently or do you want to live there? Because if it’s centrally planned enjoy packing your stuff, you are going to bumfuck nowhere if you are not needed where you are, it’s only fair.
Who saidanything about central planning?
Or imagine this, you live in this magic house that you got for free for 30 years, your kids move out and shit hits the fan, your spouse dies, well all of a sudden you don’t really need that house do you? All those memories you have from there, well sorry, someone else needs that house more, time to move out to a housing you actually need.
Well, who says that I’d want to live in that place that’s way too big for me now where everything reminds me of my dead spouse? Maybe I’d like to live with my kids, or they move in and I get a place in an outhouse. I’m sure the community and I’ll reach a mutual understanding where they’ll understand my needs/wishes and we’ll reach some form of solution, beneficial to everybody. Is that so much of a stretch, given that I’m part of a community?
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 weeks ago:
In a capitalist system, the government could print the money to give out a loan and destroy that money once the loan gets payed back to soften inflation.
But ideally, building housing shouldn’t be done for profit, either. But I guess that would require capitalism to be abolished. Which would be - again - ideal.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 weeks ago:
It intrigues me now, how you would “fix” this and make it so that people don’t have to work to have housing?
First things first: there are already a bunch of people who don’t have to work for their housing. A big part of those may have to work for an income so that they can pay for upkeep. But get rich enough and that can get payed by dividends. Or they’re landlords who get enough income from rent. Those rich people don’t have to work at all for their housing.
we already have social housing in my country.
That’s cool for the people who get it. But I’d be surprised if your home country has no homeless people and vacant housing at the same time.
We have universal healthcare, we have a bunch of social programs for people in need and we have automatic unemployment paid from social insurance. People on disability don’t work, people’s pension is covered by the state.
Do those people on social programs actually have a comfortable life, though? Or is it rather “too little to live, too much to die”? I’m quite sure that landlords still make a lot of profit from rent in that country.
What measures should we add to make it so you don’t have to work for your home?
Introduce a usufruct model of owning, where the people who live in a home actually own it (either as a family home, or multiple homes owned by a coop). The important bit is that rent-seeking is abolished in housing. Then you might still need to work for upkeep, but that’s a diminishino part of what people need to pay for rent, nowadays.
and if the election goes my preferred parties way, it will be fixed in the next cycle.
If your country is capitalist, I highly doubt that they will implement this. Profits are still required by capitalist states.
However all these things are being paid for, concrete doesn’t pour itself, steel doesn’t manufacture itself, building don’t build themselves, so how do you propose we make it so that we don’t have to pay for our homes?
I said “work as to not go homeless”. You’re bringing “paying” into it. There’s already a lot of place to live. Ideally, I’d see a communist society where this kind of stuff is planned on the basis of needs, rather than being speculated on in markets for profit
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 weeks ago:
You could get rid of housing being a means for landlords to profit from and hold housing in a usufruct property relation, and/or in common. Building and maintaining housing can be managed by the community (or be payed for by the community).
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 weeks ago:
Almost everyone has to work to not become homeless.
That’s true. Let’s fix that.
And still: Do you pay 30 to 50% of your income in your own home for that?
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 weeks ago:
In fact, I not only have an apartment I have an older house on a bigger lot and you know what? The idea that I become slave to my house and garden upkeep that I would have to cut grass during the weekends instead of having the freedom to do whatever I want frightens the fuck out of me.
You know what’s worse than “becoming a slave to [your] house”? Having to work as to not become homeless.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 4 weeks ago:
No, surely all will be good if we invest in so-called “AI”, war and the distopian surveillance state. /s
- Comment on It's barely a science. 4 weeks ago:
No joke: Economists do kind of fulfill the role of priests in that they explain the “necessary [fake] world order” to the masses.
Saying “Capitalism is a bad system” gets you comparable comments from economists as “Gods don’t exist” gets you from priests in a religious society (if not worse).
- Comment on It's barely a science. 4 weeks ago:
… And wishful thinking!
- Comment on When you see somebody do this, you know they've got the experience 4 weeks ago:
That’s the gun’s clitoris, right?
- Comment on Recommend some games for PCem 5 weeks ago:
Lo idea about theeenglish dub/translation, but if you can ignore that they had like a dozen voice actors for a whole island, the German voice acting is really good. Good look finding that mod.
- Comment on Recommend some games for PCem 5 weeks ago:
Thief 2 and Gothic 1 and 2. But I think those 2 are ok to run on modern systems.
- Comment on ai generated logo 5 weeks ago:
The price comparison is that it costs $0 to have a genAI make your logo and more than that to pay a human.
At least until enshittifaction hits big time.
- Comment on Help is needed 1 month ago:
I blame Stephanie Sterling mentioning Sacred 29
- Comment on Help is needed 1 month ago:
Bland Guardian
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 month ago:
[This video](www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC-8y2R6IxI&t=6m30s] shows the difference quite neatly. (Timestamp included for Earthworm Jim)
