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by hungie 2y ago
The thing I discovered is that it's highly variable depending on location. Step one is talk to a lawyer who knows real estate and landlord tenant laws in your specific area. Alternatively, search for a "community land trust"
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"A charity" and "charity" are different concepts. Charity is the act, not an organization.
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Please read the thread. I'm offering housing, securing forestland for conservation, and setting up or working with trusts to ensure those things continue in perpetuity. I'm also passionate about growing food and giving it away. Do
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I doubt that. I cannot understand much beyond my immediate area, and I cannot activate economies of scale.
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Read the rest of the thread. I provide many examples. I do this, but charity is a different thing than taxes.
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Thanks. So many people are like, "sure, I'd love to live in a world like X, but there's nothing I can do about it". Well, you can model it, make the change. Maybe someone will be inspired by you. I read about someone who
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by hungie 2y ago
I am a millennial. And supporting migrants isn't introducing new demand, it's just exposing the demand that's there. Like, the migrants are there and they need housing. The us vs them attitude is an artificial division. We ca
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Charity serves a different purpose. And, please read the thread to discover that I am, in fact, putting my money where my mouth is.
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I think if you read my other posts, it's clearly "do as I do".
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I put the land I buy into a trust that removes my ability to profit from it. The trust cannot take actions that would cause them to profit from selling the land. Any equity the trust holds is from me or others putting in funds that are held
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The way you quoted made it seem like you were saying asking for increased taxes was the obtuse bit.
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I do. I provide housing units at the cost of maintenance. I believe profiting from rent is deeply unethical. My renters have paid basically for their share of heating, electricity, water, sewer, and wear and tear on the building itself. But
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There's lots and lots and lots of kinds of communism. It's actually more socialism (which there are also lots of types of) than communism to advocate for raising taxes like this.
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FWIW, fuck the Soviet Union. Single party, authoritarian communism kills people.
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I would ultimately prefer a system of small, local, community managed democratic syndicalism. But, if I have to live in a capitalist world I'd prefer to live in one where the people in power at least try to take care of people. Ideally
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Humans deserve housing. My undocumented neighbors are still my neighbors. We shouldn't have to decide between which of two humans gets housing. House all my neighbors.
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by hungie 2y ago
I think housing should not be a commodity. Medicine and education shouldn't be run for profit. (Ideally, commodity food would be grown for the common good, too.) But also, I'm posting here in recognition that my politics aren&#x27
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Ok, if you said let's compromise at 70% I suppose I wouldn't fight you!
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That's a heck of an assertion! Can you walk me through it?
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It's a mix. I sell my stock immediately and rebalance it to other things.
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by hungie 2y ago
Charity is not the same as taxes. It's also not mutually exclusive. I can and do give away huge sums until those taxes go up. I'm buying land and putting it into conservation, giving to community land trusts, and other ways that e
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I recognize no system is perfect. If there was an attempt to achieve those things, crank my taxes up. I don't need perfect to be the enemy of good.
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That there's a classic example of a false dichotomy.
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It's not a necessity. Plenty of people somehow don't die even though they have landlines and no internet.
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I make 750k a year, give or take. I think I paid 150k in taxes, more or less, last year. I would gladly pay 600k a year in taxes if it meant healthcare, education, housing, and food were secured for all. Let me keep 20% of my work for luxur
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by hungie 2y ago
Raccoons are an incredible example of nature adapting to our built environment. They are adorable, and fascinating (and complex).
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I worked at Boeing. The reason people attribute McDonnell Douglas is because it caused a fundamental shift in leadership expectations. It was clear as day on the ground that something had switched, suddenly every conversation was about mini
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True. My actions here are extending empathy towards you, and to consistently express that the empathy is genuine. Responding as strongly and as angrily as you have suggests that someone in your past was needlessly rude or over correcting, a
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I understand that sets can be a difficult concept for some. I'm happy to help you work through some basics (Venn diagrams, etc) if you'd like.
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"This is going to happen eventually" is not typically a statement used to describe the present.

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