Olgratin_Magmatoe

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can recommend against enders. I have two friends with them, and one myself. Between the 3 of us none of them are currently working, and its been like this since i found out all 3 of us had 3d printers. Keeping them working is like pulling teeth.

They wouldn’t be able to finish stealing that car before a thousand hungry lawyers ate them alive. Why do we let media companies do that?

They would probably actually have a decent shot at getting away with it, at least at first.

And to answer your question, it's because the anger that companies generate by doing this shit ends up turning into piracy. Why would you try to punish a corp for doing this (likely wasting your time) when a cheap VPN and basic tech literacy gets you what you want?

The effort ratios are way out of wack when it comes to digital products. It's easy to get around digital bullshitery, not so much in the real world where we are all car dependant.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

nobody should use chatgpt to generate long rambly paragraphs complaining about nothing in particular with no point or ending or punctuation coupled with maildrop.cc as a temporary email

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gay - Anon was constantly terrified of shooters, which means they were constantly thinking of other men

Agreed.

Ultimately, it's just the nature of corporations to fuck us over in the end.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Granted, the above is more of a general trend then a hard and fast rule. The city and area you live in will greatly effect the rates for both.

At the end of the day I think it is quite clear that AirBnB is a net negative to society, and a huge one at that. So fuck em.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those should be co-ops/non market housing.

And if the incentives for new co-ops to be made isn't enough, it's time for the government to finance/build/zone for new ones. If the government just fucking spams medium and high density housing in the form of co-ops, bans corps from owning housing, bans AirBnB, etc, it would very quickly fix the housing crisis.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

AirBnB isn't even really worth it from a cost perspective:

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/travel/are-airbnbs-more-cost-effective-than-hotels

People are suffering by the millions as a result of the housing crisis, and AirBnB is contributing. So fuck AirBnB, it isn't worth the price society pays. No such corporation or service should exist.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think there are enough such edge cases for it to make sense for it to be legal.

If a corp needs an employee to be that close, then they should hire local, and/or rotate staff.

At a bare minimum, I agree, no corp should profit off of housing.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's how a lot of co-ops works. Or maybe it's called non-market rental. I don't remember the exact name but it's definitely a thing.

Either way, landlord parasites are not needed.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

restricting corporations from purchases, banning Airbnb (yes, they drive prices up, and if you use them, you are contributing to it), penalizing if unit is not occupied (though enforcement of this will be hard), or banning foreign investors.

Agreed, we should be doing all of those things. Corporations should not be able to own any kind of housing at all, and multi unit buildings should be under non-profit co-ops.

And to penalize unoccupied housing, we should have a georgist taxation system.

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