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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Bullshit. Of course buying your own house is also an investment decision. You speculate that its future value minus your initial investment (and plus the "extra joy" you get out of being a homeowner) is worth more than what you wo
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
There are contracts. If your contract forbids doubling over night, you are good. If not, it was your choice to agree to it anyway.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
If the government owns all housing, you have no recourse. With multiple small private cities, you can change cities. Actually, with governments, you could also try to switch countries. That is why I am opposed to mega states like EU wants b
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
The simple fact is that the people who complain about their homes they rent from those companies are unable to find other accommodation for a comparable rent. Which in turn implies that it is not really the fault of those companies, otherwi
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
You can not simply charge "ever-increasing rent". You can only charge what people are willing to pay. More people are pouring into the city every day who are prepared to pay more. Simple as that. Those companies owning 150K apartm
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
They wanted to build just on a small stripe on the side of it, it is not as if they would have to fill the whole place with houses. But even that was shot down via "Volksentscheid".
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Or run the city into the ground, make it unattractive enough to repel the people who want to move there. That approach may even work out - Socialism succeeded doing that before already.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Who exactly are you talking about?
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
It surely is already very expensive to leave an apartment empty as it is. There also seem to be special circumstances and laws in London. But lets assume the worst, that it is all just pure evil capitalist speculation: even that is not nece
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
I don't follow your logic. In both cases, home ownership or rental, you need one house per interested party. Why should one be more expensive than the other? And why should politics decide for people whether they should rent or buy, I
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Or, you could simply allow private entities to build housing. I am sure especially in those "hot" areas where prices are spiralling out of control, there is no shortage of entities with the "will" to build. That is usual
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
"rampant corporate ownership" - what exactly makes it "rampant"? It is just ownership. I live in Berlin and for the most part, the houses really just sit there. They are not on a rampage or anything.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
I don't think white supremacists, vaccine-deniers and election deniers would agree with you. Also you are just picking the easy examples. And what is a "solid consensus"? Trump was elected in 2016, for example, presumably by
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
"videos from reputable sources like Vox" - yeah, right... I wonder who that article is addressed to? At first it may seem they want to reassure viewers that they will get shown the best content. But the longer the article goes on,
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Sure it is not investing advice, and obviously it would have to become available on other exchanges. I wouldn't advise investing in Doge for gains, either.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
What do you mean by bullshit? People who like it and follow the fake personae on social media are wasting their time? Or what exactly? Are all invented things bullshit, so also books, music, movies, paintings...? Maybe posting this artifici
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Or many people want to live in London.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Apparently there are people who are willing and able to pay the housing prices, so your claim seems obviously false.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Why, what do you hate about it? Because they are having fun?
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
But how do you define substance? It seems to me if they make money, they have substance, whether what they do is useful in the greater scheme of things or not. I must admit I don't quite understand your attitude. I personally for examp
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
For the dogecoin fans, there is also a similar project based on Monero called Wownero: https://wownero.org/ - that is, technology based on Monero, but more fun. Since I missed to dogecoin hype, I am now rooting for Wow.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Governments all over the world are trying to get rid of paper money. EU (or Germany, sorry I forgot) just passed laws that production of all goods should be traceable from beginning to end. They are working on it. Nobody shall be able to op
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
How will you find and maintain experts who are convinced of the greatness of some investments, but refuse to invest, because they want to remain impartial? I think your demands are unrealistic. Also, you could just as well consider it a pos
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
I think you use a different definition of bullshit than the discussion here.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Nevertheless the calculation of the article is complete bullshit. You can not claim "not using fossil fuels would save billions of lives" when you need fossil fuels to keep billions of people alive in the present moment. It just d
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
What do you mean? It took millions of years to "make" them, and the same initial conditions can not be recreated, either.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
"I didn't do that, you mis-inferred that from my post." Well you didn't point out that the book was just a small part of the whole story. "She didn't "fake" anything there" Iirc almost every entr
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Before the book, Baerbock was in trouble for faking her CV, suggesting qualifications she doesn't really have. I don't know what the last word on that was, though. Pointing out the book was not such a big deal then is like pointin
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
I seem to remember other quotes, in any case, the book only made the news because before that, Baerbock was already in trouble for faking her CV, suggesting qualifications she doesn't really have. At least they were being disputed, I h
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
She doesn't really face any consequences for it, either, no PhD to lose or anything. The reason it made the news is because before that, she faked lots of entries in her CV, suggesting qualifications she doesn't have. The book was

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