Thales@sh.itjust.works to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoReality TV show ideash.itjust.worksimagemessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up1819file-text
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minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agothe guy who owns 2-3 duplexes can (and are incentivised) to be as cruel and inhumane as possible by the same capitalist forces. if you ask me, rent shouldn’t be a thing. once you paid the value of the house in rent you should be able to claim it as your own.
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoBased on that definition you never stop paying. Homes values constantly go up. My dad bought a house in the 1970s. 33k. Today the house has a value of 300k. Took him 30 years to pay off the original mortgage.
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agopart of the reason house prices are always on the up, is because they agree considered an investment not a basic necessity. so there’s no interest in building more. a house shouldn’t cost more than construction cost.
the guy who owns 2-3 duplexes can (and are incentivised) to be as cruel and inhumane as possible by the same capitalist forces.
if you ask me, rent shouldn’t be a thing. once you paid the value of the house in rent you should be able to claim it as your own.
Based on that definition you never stop paying. Homes values constantly go up. My dad bought a house in the 1970s. 33k.
Today the house has a value of 300k. Took him 30 years to pay off the original mortgage.
part of the reason house prices are always on the up, is because they agree considered an investment not a basic necessity. so there’s no interest in building more.
a house shouldn’t cost more than construction cost.