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> Some collective organization is unavoidable Town? City? County?

• walterbell 4y ago
  There's always a new dystopia. Decentralized rental homes owned by private equity, where all interactions between the legal owner and renter are done by "AI" self-service computer portals and IoT sensors. Policy uniformly applied by computer, few paths for escalation to human management. https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7eaw/robot-landlords-are-buying-up-houses https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7eaw/robot-landlords-are-b...
  • fragmede 4y ago
    Other than, y'know, knocking on their door that you're neighbor to.
    • walterbell 4y ago
      For renters to organize collectively for negotiation with management? That's one reason for remote owners to buy standalone homes, since the "AI landlord" doesn't require local clusters of homes, as they can contract local maintenance on demand.