piratekaiser

@piratekaiser@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all deserve better than this⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how subscription services get you. Why by DVDs when you can stream all day long on Netflix? Suddenly, DVDs are no longer for sale and streaming services take down content for one reason or another. Then you have no other legal alternative but to pay whatever they ask, be shown whatever they want and continue to own none of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand the logic of it, my point is that this is a trust/honesty based system which leaves you cornered. Here are some problems with it:

  • placing a low value on my house to pay less taxes exposes me to a hostile buyout
  • placing a realistic (e.g. around average for the region) price doesn’t solve the previous problem. I’m still in danger of a hostile buyout, while also paying higher taxes. What’s more, even if everyone else plays fairly, this additional % someone else paid to take my house is now the minimum added on top of their own valuation, driving prices up.
  • placing an unreachably high price would bankrupt me as I can’t pay the taxes, so there is no scenario in which this works out for me
  • given a realistic and unequal economy, there will be those who can’t afford to place a higher price on their house, i can just go and buy them out on sale, then rent them back to them (that one might sound familiar)

  The fault in your assumption is 1. that this would discourage corporations from buying up; and 2. That you live in an equal and just society;

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not how this works. A better solution would be to tax more aggressively second+ hinges and severely limit what corporations can invest into.

  Why should a company be able to profit off of second hand housing? This isn’t a commodity, but it’s treated as such. Companies should be able to build new housing (for sale) and own housing only for the purposes of, say, housing their employees if they so wish. I simply see no benefits to allowing companies trade living spaces like stocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Controversial question⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My example was about how people get together to make revolutions happen, not wether they were good/bad or what ended up happening after. I chose those examples because in both cases a revolt was long time coming but people couldn’t do it until they were organised

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Controversial question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at history. You need a tipping point, but more importantly, you need organised masses and a vision/visionary to get behind.

  That’s how Lenin got in power. It’s how the French decapitated their king. That’s why there was a rally at the White house when trump lost the previous election but nobody is doing anything against him now at the states while he dismantles the country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we go back to small phones?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The instances are structured much like discord, in that you have a separate server for topics/communities. Think of them as servers that can talk to each other. Instead of subreddits you have this.

  Regarding Reddit (US company), well, depending on your values and political views, you might see the need and have the desire to not depend on/support the platform.