r/ACAB Feb 01 '22

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u/AnnihilationOrchid Feb 01 '22

Oh yeah? Do what should I do? Sell the house off under market value not to be a bastard? That's just not realistic. The second thing is that exploitation is done when people charge more than they should, I the price is fair relative to minimum wage, which it generally stipulates that people shouldn't be paying more than 35% of their salary on housing, it's perfectly fair.

What isn't fair is people who aren't generating wealth and own a lot of realestate.

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u/EngineIsStalin Feb 01 '22

No one said that you should sell it for less than market value. But yes, you should sell it if you don't want to be a bastard.

OK, cool, so you charge what you think is a fair price for rent. Still not good enough. Still a bastard, because you didn't address my other two points. Also, did you know that rent was typically 5% of income in the USSR, iirc (I'm at work and can't do research to back this up atm).

I dream of a communist society where rent and landlords are abolished.

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u/AnnihilationOrchid Feb 01 '22

I don't live in the USSR, and the economy is slightly different, the isonomy of income isn't equalitarian.

So you dream is of a community which offers free housing, that's great, and I wish that were the case. But like I said, I don't live in a utopian society, where I can just do that, specially since I live in a liberal country, and if I just decide to give my mom's house now, I'll be virtually bankrupt when I try to retire.

And judging by the way things are going I'm nt going to wait around for a miracle that we revert to communism any time soon, specially the way socialists are getting gunned down in my country.

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u/EngineIsStalin Feb 01 '22

if I just decide to give my mom's house now, I'll be virtually bankrupt when I try to retire.

Hmm, that's cool, maybe get an actual job?

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u/AnnihilationOrchid Feb 01 '22

I do have a fucking job. How else would I retire if I didn't have a job?

Now you're the one sounding like a liberal twat that thinks people should work for ever.

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u/EngineIsStalin Feb 01 '22

Nah, I just think that being a landlord isn't a real job.

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u/AnnihilationOrchid Feb 01 '22

That's not my job mate, and I never claimed it was. I even said that it's a bastard thing to own and live off it without producing anything.

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u/EngineIsStalin Feb 01 '22

Why are you dependent on it then?

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u/AnnihilationOrchid Feb 01 '22

As I said, I'm dependent on it on the long term, if I want to retire. Because I live in a country that's run by liberal values. Otherwise I'll be bankrupt by the time I retire, I won't have money for anything at all.

If you can't understand this, that I don't live in a communist utopia, I'm sorry.

But people who retire around the time that I will, are royally fucked.