• sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    13 days ago

    While I don’t support rent control, let’s be real econmists are cheap regime whores who say whatever their owners need them to say so that plebs accept the fuckening.

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      12 days ago

      If you’re trying to imply that rent controls are good by your statement, can you show me anywhere that’s implemented them that has affordable housing prices?

      It’s not like they haven’t been tried, they just continually fail.

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        12 days ago

        No country needs rent controls. They need ownership controls. As in, nobody should be able to own more than 1x primary residence and 1x holiday house &/or investment property. Period. No company should ever be allowed to own residential land/property, except for the duration of a build (with hard limits for development/build/sale that prevent artificial price controls).

        Neoliberalism/conservatism have failed humanity for housing security, financial & economic security, national security, employment security, mental and physical health, education, civil liberties; the list is endless. Continuing this several-decade failure any longer is insanity.

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          12 days ago

          No we don’t. Ownership controls are such a stupid way to deal with the issue.

          People should be able to own as much as they want, they should just have to pay everyone else for that privledge (through taxes), rather than profiting off it. Pay for what you use, the more or the more desirable, the more you pay.