@futzle As soon as you said it, I knew why it had to be -- but I hadn't ever actually thought about it before ^.^
@rey One of these days, we'll have a sane government and the rail infra issues will all be fixed. :rainbow_left:
@researchfairy Clearly they're just not capitulating hard enough.
More bleach on the white flag, maybe?
It seems to me that even so, one group of people (even if that's just "large individual landlords") selling off will increase the housing supply.
If the investment market is large enough to snarf them up immediately, at asking price, that's going to be a problem regardless of any other solutions (building more, rent-fixing, whatever) -- so that's the problem to address.
@farah Train of thought: "You must mean shot with cameras, then" -> camera with this sign underneath -> camera with "trespassers will be filmed and automatically posted to social media" underneath
...which might or might not be any use whatsoever, but I have my Questionable Ideas Oversharer reputation to maintain. 🧐
I feel a large degree of certainty that a key part of the answer is increased democratic oversight of how these places are managed. I'd probably start with co-operative ownership -- but I've also seen how that can be usurped by power-people who know how to work the system...
...and a large part of the problem there, in my somewhat biased view, is a lack of good collaborative software for resource-management -- which is something I'm working on (with painful slowness, unfortunately) -- as well as objective standards and best-practices around self-governance.
(I could probably go on but it would probably get rambly.)
@JennyFluff T-shirt idea: "JUST VIBE IT" in large letters, followed by smaller letters saying "Why go to all the trouble of getting it right?".
Or maybe for extra burn, reverse the order (onlookers will still see the larger text first and initially take it as unironic since there's nothing after it).
@sus We definitely had issues during the height of COVID, but despite half-expecting shortages for various reasons this year, I haven't really noticed anything being conspicuously absent.
...aside from sunflower oil, I guess, though it seems to be slowly coming back now.
YES.
No individual should own more houses than any other individual.
(...and collective ownership should be democratic, not wealth-driven.)
[further thought] If your concern is that this is an individual selling his properties to, say, a private equity firm, then I have to wonder why the PE firm finds them attractive (despite reform) when the original owner doesn't.
Also, PE residential investment shouldn't be a thing; that needs fixing too (see first part of this). "Investment property" shouldn't be a thing.
So, yeah, it's entirely possible that the framers of the Constitution wanted the laypeople (i.e. us) to believe they intended a free and equal society while nonetheless setting up a legal structure to ensure that the plutocrats stayed in charge...
...and that, therefore, when adherents of right-wing "philosophy" (I use the term generously) claim that an inherently stratified and bigoted society ruled by assholigarchs is in fact what the framers intended, they are actually correct...
...but even if they are, I don't fucking care. They may be correct about what the framers wanted, but they're wrong about what's right.
I want what we were promised.
I will not support anything less than that.
I never pledged allegiance to anything less, nor would I ever.
What the Right wants is straight-up unacceptable and unnecessary, and also thoroughly proven to have bad outcomes for everyone (even if a few get to temporarily feel like the lords of creation).
The "landed gentry" do not know WTF they are doing anymore, if they ever did.
We need a legal framework that actually delivers on the promises implied by the Constitution.
Legislative truth-in-advertising, or GTFO. 👩⚖️
@tarotbird I have a theory that most curricula make history boring in order to reduce the number of kids who really pay attention to it.
(Also, all brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much bigger in the middle, and thin again at the far end.)
6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300
@anon_opin In theory, this will help drive down housing prices, which is in fact the epicenter of the problem.
So... yeah, seems good. Not sure what they're not getting about the situation...
(Maybe they're trying to appeal to all the "my home is my investment" people?)
@RnDanger @the_etrain ...second only to the US southeastern peninsula, because of all the minifloridians. (Or is it minichlorination, because of all the backyard pools? I get my force-physics terminology mixed up...)
@EndlessMason It's not directly applicable, but somehow I feel like quoting...
They go, "Me and your mom, we've been noticing lately you've been having a lot of problems
And you've been going off for no reason
And we're afraid you're gonna hurt somebody
And we're afraid you're gonna hurt yourself,
So we decided that it would be in your best interest if we put you somewhere you could get the help that you need"
-- Suicidal Tendencies, "Institutionalized"