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Housing, healthcare, education, and other universal necessities shouldn’t be for-profit.
They can be for profit.
But limited, a landlord has 1-2 apartments, not 50, and corporations are right out, as are foreign owners.
Housing needs to be about housing, healthcare needs to focus on healthcare.
Housing needs to be about housing, healthcare needs to focus on healthcare.
That’s why I think profit needs to be eliminated from the equation. With it, the priority will always be maximizing profit, with providing a quality product or service being secondary, or even incidental.
We used to be able to pull it off, then citizens united and other lobbying meant corporations can ‘add to cart’ any laws they want.
Break campaign finance and things can actually get better.
Oh boy, wait until you find out about cartels.
No they can’t.
They can, the politicians just have to have the balls.
Teddy Roosevelt knew how to handle cartels.
Have an upvote!
Ultimately nothing should be for profit.
Agreed, though I would also be down for more tightly regulated and graded housing similar to our restaurants in the short term.
More states should allow withholding rent.
Not just withholding rent, punitive judgements on anything less than best effort on dealing with it as soon as it’s known and inspection schedules that keep the longest duration it can be unknown for short enough to avoid most health issues.
isn’t that headline tautological?
