• @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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    27 months ago

    Why do you not want a system of cheaper housing, with more power/freedom in your hands?

    • @pyre
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      57 months ago

      it’s clearly just a landlord pretending to be a happy renter

      • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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        57 months ago

        While possible, there is no way to be certain. Corporate interests like these don’t get perpetuated solely by the owning class. It requires swaths of the working class to have stockholm syndrome. So until it devolves into insults, generally I try to give people the benefit of the doubt.

        Botting on the other hand is a different story.

      • @Zehzin
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        7 months ago

        Don’t attribute to malice what is adequately explained by ignorance. Owners have had centuries of propaganda to fool people that they actually do anything.

      • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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        27 months ago

        It is bizarre that you think that housing is used as a “speculative” investment.

        No it’s not.

        https://create.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Real-Estate-Speculation.pdf

        people simply need a place where they can store wealth without having it destroyed

        That’s what banks are for.

        If people could use money to store their wealth housing would be demonetized and prices would go down, then your coop model could naturally outcompete renting if it truly is superior. Fix the money, fix the world.

        This is a load of nonsense. People already use money to store their wealth.

        Coops haven’t taken off because it is in the financial interest of the owning class to maintain the status quo. They do everything in their power to buy up every property they can, and to influence the law to keep their business in power.

        The problem is systematic, it requires a fundamental change to the structure of our economy.

          • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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            7 months ago

            I guess you never heard about a savings account or corporate greed, must be nice to be that privileged.

              • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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                17 months ago

                If you believe that a savings account outpace inflation I don’t know how to help you.

                Mine does, at least, actual inflation.

                The fake inflation that is just corporate greed is something that can never be outpaced by anything, not even housing as an investment which just makes your point double moot.

                The solution is to put an end to the current economic system. It’s not serving me or you. It’s just stealing from us:

                https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

                  • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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                    07 months ago

                    the system is stealing from you, but through monetary debasement

                    This is only one of the many ways in which the rich steal from us. Believe me, I fucking get that part.