Why should anyone own a home when they can rent them from the capital class?
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Billionaires is a symptom of the illness.
And the poor are the cause.
Meanwhile the republicans want to remove the estate tax
We have to stop this :(
Yes please keep making really big bets on a bubbled market. Everyone ready for housing market crash 2 electric boogaloo?
Don’t worry, he knows the govt will save his fortune at the cost of taxpayer (not the rich) money. It’s a win-win for him and other big players.
Do you guys think they’ll start offering housing as job incentives soon? Work for us and you may have a house. Or tying housing to your job like they do with health insurance?
I can imagine it now.
Alexa’s installed throughout the house that have alarms to remind you to attend work.
An expensive subscription service for toilet use forcing the tenants to piss in bottles.
Scheduled TV time forced to only consume Amazon prime shows or films
Basically, this:
remember to drink your verification can, announced by AI celebrity voice from your house speakers
Can’t wait to tear out all the copper when I get fired.
residential property should not be able to be bought by corporations, there is no benefit in allowing that to happen at all
USA has roughly 15 million vacant homes currently. If this company manages to fill some of them with people, that means there’ll be fewer vacant homes. Obvious net benefit for all.
edit I guess you guys enjoy that there are homeless people then
Oh look… a capitalist shill using homeless people as a propaganda prop to do apologetics for the capitalists that caused all the homelessness.
Yawn.
If there are 15 million vacant homes now, then a company made up of wealthy investors buying up heaps of them at the current inflated prices isn’t going to change anything. Those houses won’t become living spaces for poor and homeless people - they’ll sit vacant until someone comes along who’s willing to pay the exorbitant rent.
Hol up. Lolololol.
Are you saying that the rich fucks who are buying up housing stock will make them accessible to the houseless population of America?
Are you saying that the rich fucks who are buying up housing stock will make them accessible to the houseless population of America?
No, that’s not what I’m saying.
And please explain the economic theory behind your post. We have history as far back as the start of capitalism. It shows your post to be completely out of touch with reality. If you have proof evidence or a functioning theory of why your post would lead to Las vacancies and more accessible housing for people, I am very interested in seeing it.
I’ve got a feeling though that you don’t have an adequate response or you would have posted it. So if you’re going to reply without a response, maybe all you need to do is post an apology…
Then what the fuck are you saying lol
They don’t know. Look at their comment above, the book they recommended to everyone was “the basics of economics” or something.
I really hope it’s a troll, because holy shit the narcissism it takes to read an Econ 100 level (if even that) book, and think you’re an expert on the subject. Wild.
It reads like a landlords son lol
… Proceeds to let the crickets explain their position
So far they actually have nothing to say beyond “nuh uh you’re wrong”, which is effectively nothing at all. I’ve asked them to explain, we’ll see what we get.
A surplus of homes does not equal less homeless people. If their prices, either as rentals or for buying, is too high, it can actually increase the number of homeless people.
so, you think the reason that the homeless people don’t live in these homes is because… they wouldn’t be able to pay rich people money if they did?
how high do you have to be to make the statement “look I would love to not freeze to death, but only if I get to pay half my income to Amazon” seem reasonable?
Vacant does not mean unowned.
Plus I’m pretty sure Amazon doesn’t want thousands of crackhead row houses in shit areas.
The reason those houses are vacant is because companies bought them and are now pricing them out of the reach of most consumers
How do you think businesses work? By pricing the things they are selling out of reach of consumers?
How much money does a corporation make by just owning a house? I think it’s not as much as renting it.
Do you know that real estate investment exists? A house is an asset, and unless the entire economy crashes (like in 2008), then owning homes (even if empty) will make you easy money. It’s an appreciating asset. I could be wrong, but I also believe it’s very good for laundering money.
Wealthier Chinese nationals have been doing this for years in the US and Canada (look at what Chinese real estate investment has done to the housing market in Vancouver, for example).
Free market can work in fields where competition is plenty and entering is cheap.
When the amount of “players” in the market is so small they can collude to keep prices high it all falls apart.
No, free market never works, because all people cannot be experts on all subjects at all times.
Because of that, you end up with people dying as “collateral damage” while the free market “corrects itself.” Things like: “Well they should have done their research and known that brand of car has faulty brakes, and went to a different company instead, so it’s kind of their own fault.” Or, “this is just part of the process. Now everyone will know (lol right) that this company makes cars with faulty brakes and stop buying their products,” while completely ignoring that these are fucking people that are dying. That’s not ok.
And what if a company decides to hide things about their product from the public? What happens when that very product ends up giving people mesothelioma, but because that’s an illness that can take decades to manifest after exposure, there’s no clear causal link to the regular consumer. How does the free market correct that one? Or do we just let people suffer and die horrible deaths so that we can keep using the cheaper kind of insulation and save a few bucks?
Sorry but the loss of human lives is not ever acceptable “collateral damage”. Especially not when the loss is 100% unnecessary.
That’s not price regulation though, it’s more about quality control. I’m assuming there’s already laws in place that prevent glaringly faulty products from being sold (…unless the lobbyists start messing with stuff, but regulations wouldn’t really solve that either).
It was more about the “free market keeps prices low” argument. It does if we’re talking about easy-to-access markets, but it falls apart if the entry barrier is so high and the only parties can easily collude.
Sure there is. Just not to the regular person.
It’s sure beneficial for the rich fucks behind these companies. Everyone else gets fucked.
No, that’s not any of this works. In a free market, it’s entirely possible (and often the case) that both the rich fucks and everyone else benefit.
I recommend Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell and also Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee.
Then pray tell, how is private equity purchasing homes benefiting everyone else?
It increases the overall supply, brings more resources and stability to the housing market. Corporations that specialize in house rental have a opportunity to view market data. All this combined benefits everybody.
Only if these corporations are actually required by regulation to make these houses available for rent, and at market-adequate rates. If a company is as cashed up as this one is likely to be, they’ll only rent to people who are willing to pay higher rents, and if there’s nobody who wants to rent a specific property, they’d rather leave it sitting vacant than lower the rent.
This isn’t hypothetical, it’s happening in practically every property market where wealthy investors are buying up housing stock.
Free market doesn’t exist without regulation
Lol please tell me this comment is a joke.
Lol please go read those books so you can stop being so ignorant.
Please humble yourself and acknowledge that maybe you’re not an expert on the subject after reading “the basics of…” book about it. Just a thought.
Keep in mind that there are people who have dedicated their careers/lives to studying this stuff. Don’t disregard rebuttals just because your “basics of economics” or whatever book didn’t get there yet.
The real world just doesn’t work that way. But maybe if you went beyond Econ 100 level shit (or honestly, not even), you would have learned that.
It’s been bought by them for a long time now.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/603416/leading-apartment-owners-in-the-us-by-units-owned/
They used to just buy your mortgages, then they started cutting out the middle man.
People shot not be able to buy residential building? /s
Kind of feels like these people have declared war on me but if I try and fight back, I’d be the bad guy.
You’re not rich if you own a home. You’re rich when you own everybody else’s home
This feels very aboringdystopia
Somebody should cross post this there.
This right here is the modern slavery and politicians are condoning this predatory behaviour.
The richer the rich get, the less the rest of us look like the middle and lower classes and the more we look like peasants. Serfs.
The more wealth inequality widens that gap, the more modern capitalism starts to look like techno-feudalism.
And that’s really what they want without saying it, isn’t it? They don’t want us to own anything of our own…work their fields and factories, pay them to live in housing they own, and convert all other possessions into subscription services, all in an effort to create a system where the rest of us only exist as a source of labor and wealth for them, where even what they pay their serfs comes right back to them.
Renting is literally just a subscription for your home
Serfs worked less.
Subscribe to life on Amazon Prime. One reason less to buy stuff from them this holiday season.
If you buy a Prime Home ™ and finance through Prime Mortgage ™ we’ll reimburse you for up to 1.2% of your closing costs, absolutely free!
Lol a big fuck you to all middle class and that includes you too Ryan. Carrying an iPhone and driving a Mercedes on a loan doesn’t make you rich if you still have to be in the office mon-fri and slave 9-5.
Well this isn’t creepy as fuck…
