PaganDude

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[–] PaganDude@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh fun, so how well did this method grow grains, corn, & rice, the main staple crops? Turns out, really badly. So food is going to get incredibly expensive, got it.#

[–] PaganDude@lemmy.ca 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

When do we start eating the rich?

[–] PaganDude@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago

This is called Normalcy Bias. Since it failed last time, we shouldn't do anything to counter it.

This allows tragedies to happen. Don't enable it.

[–] PaganDude@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

"Despite widespread abuses, Rwanda maintains support for Canadian government" works just as well, given how we treat indiginous people, unhoused people, environmental protestors...

[–] PaganDude@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Well given we have limited resources and climate change is causing a lot of issues, we really should stop growing the economy and creating more inflation, because we're going to see widespread deflation over the next few decades. Everything we build up now will come back down, as we refuse to build for the new world & cling to the old one.

[–] PaganDude@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

A lot of it is just giving more public money to perlite who have money, so not take a great fix. Rental prices aren't about covering costs, so why would lowering costs help?

[–] PaganDude@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

You say that as if the solution is just "people in charge say it should be fixed". What are the major causes of the housing crisis & see do you see it being fixed?

From what I've been reading from various sources, the problems we're seeing are a combination of deep-seated urban design failures, combined with the changes to investment rules over the last few decades. Neither are quick fixes.

[–] PaganDude@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're aggressively missing the point. It's it a mental health issue, or are you being deliberately obtuse?

[–] PaganDude@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Landlords provide housing the way scalpers "provide" tickets. The solution for people who need can't afford to buy or who only need short term accommodation is public housing.

The CMHC used to provide funds to the provinces which would then build big public housing units with affordable rent. This provide a check & balance to the free market, keeping rents and house prices from skyrocketing. But then in the 80s and 90s, both Conservative and Liberal PMs successively defunded that aspect of the CMHC to solve budget issues, and those properties were destroyed as they reached their "maturity" date, regardless of whether the building was still usable or not.

I lived near one of them, located here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/SG2kkXeVsp3Nia2RA Check out the street view and click "see more dates" for 2012, that's housing for 90+families. Then in 2014 it was closed for demolition. And today it's still an empty grass lot. Almost 10 years as a Govt-owned empty lot, instead of affordable housing, because those Govts kept promising "market solutions" to housing problems.

But it turns out the "problem" with housing was letting the "free market" turn it into another Tulip Bulb craze, instead of keeping it an affordable necessity

[–] PaganDude@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 year ago (14 children)

If not for scalpers to buy tickets from LiveNation would there even be concerts?

[–] PaganDude@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They're not generally cartoonish evil

You really need to look at how they're talking on landlord forums and such, the way they speak about tenants. Reality will remove this naive idea from your mind.

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