I felt that way about watching the human centipede which I did by total accident. It is constantly being referenced and I would never have understood any of it. I literally heard a refence to it in the past couple of days.
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A lot of landlords perform zero or only the most minimal maintenance to their properties. I don't know where this "value added" idea of yours coue come from. Unlike my wage, the rent goes up every year by a fixed percent. They spend as little as possible and over time the neglect builds up. So sad the way things fall apart for want of a little TLC. They will get paid more every year regardless. Then when it's bad enough maybe apply for an AGI and make the tenants bear the cost of repairs aimed at fancying the place up without fixing any underlying issues, and/or renovict them to raise the rent even further. They are value suckers, not value adders. Both from the tenants, but also by allowing the condition of the building to deteriorate much faster than is required.
No it isn’t, that’s only the case when the market fails like a situation with a finite amount of land in a specific area. There’s nothing inherently exploitative about renting cars to people, or renting a garden tool you only use once a year, or renting a paddle board for a trip to the lake, or renting a hotel room while travelling.
Sorry I meant rental housing because that's what we are talking about. How does your argument about property taxes apply to a paddle board?
Interesting how your examples emphasize transience and have the feeling of recreational. Housing isn't something you need once in a while for funsies. You need it every day of your life, ideally without interruption. It's hard to think of a comparable example to residential rental, because it's such a key component to life itself. A better example for you would be access to running water or power. Maybe pharmaceuticals to treat chronic disease. You pay a fee to get access to a resource which is beyond your means to obtain as an individual. They shouldn't be managed according to the whims of random rich people, they are social infrastructure.
go back to having apartment/home rentals just be something landlords do to earn a little bit of money for providing a service
When was that?
Am I understanding you properly that you think housing should be exclusively or primary provided by people who are doing it as a side hustle? Do you think having small artisanal landlords is somehow better than organizations run by professionals? I find it odd that you've clearly put a lot of thought into one aspect of the issue about taxes and such, but still sound kind of dismissive about the importance of housing to people, and also the skill involved in properly managing housing, to say nothing of the human beings residing inside. Which is not in high supply among the rinky dink small time landlords I've mostly lived under during my life.
But I don't think big business is the solution; there has to be some sort of accountable body that manages housing. I still don't see how your various tax schemes do anything to defer the profit motive, which is the driver of rent increases. It has always been that way.
That's weird; I handle change regularly for small transactions. Maybe they just dont need to make much coins these days. Digital only getting more popular so just leave the existing ones in circulation.
I remember in the 5th grade we were reproductive taught anatomy with black and white line drawings of adult genitalia and it literally didn't occur to me that it had anything to do with my body or anyone else's. The hairy spread beavers or the cross sections with lines referring to some squiggle as the vas deferens... It was about as meaningful as being in geography class trying to memorize the names of every island in the arctic.
"You think? I mean I'd rather high taxes compared to the status quo. But in my version there is the "let us take it off your hands" option, where it ends up in public ownership. Yours just has the properties swirling around some private market.
you’re “renting” from the government
In most jurisdictions, the landlord tenant relationship includes duties on the landlord with regard to services, standards etc. In Ontario they have to keep the unit a minimum temperature, fix the roof if it leaks, provide safe electricity etc. It also offers the landlord the remedy of eviction should the tenant fail to pay rent for a while.
There is nothing at all like that with paying taxes. The government hardly even enforces the regulations on the landlord. And I've never heard of anybody getting evicted for non-payment of property taxes. So I dunno what you are on about.
some half cooked system that people can exploit
I'll admit my idea is half cooked, I'm no policy wonk.
Rent is inherently exploitative: the landlord is forcing people, usually with less wealth/power, to pay them a fee to avoid being evicted. The fee is greater than the costs incurred = profit. My proposal doesn't completely eliminate that but would substantial reduce that. If provides no new avenue of exploitation that I can see.
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what does that mean?
literally this week I overheard 2 ladies talking on the bus about getting in with City of Toronto as cleaners, which would be an upgrade. They were both public school cleaners. Talking about how they spend their existing 6 weeks of vacation. One at a school hosting summer school and camps so the work never stops; the other at a school where they are made to take the whole summer off by default.
One mentioned being a 20+ year, the other was a fairly recent hire from the sounds of it. The lifer was committed to the school board, but the junior was obviously really interested in getting in with the City if she could swing it. Because you get MORE with the city. But their hiring process is insane.
CUPE local 79 FTW apparently kicking IBEW ass.
IBEW you gotta change your name. get with the times.
lol that's why I don't know if I count as middle class. because class is about yer relationship to capital. "middle class" is meaningless.
libs won't do squat. I'm just shit talking and planting seeds
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that's not whataboutism it's a better description of the situation than you could manage
you only want to make people pay for what they take, and people buying big houses definitely do that.
No they don't because they don't pay the whole value of taxes to get services in such an inefficient manner.
There is no home you can buy that is small enough to NOT be inaccessible to most people.
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Is this what memes are now