• AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    That’s a free-rider problem. As an individual, you don’t want to rent to a convicted criminal. But as a society, we want criminals that served their time to be able to rent, because if they can’t they’ll be forced to squat, which will increase the probability they’ll continue to do more crimes (they already broke the law by squatting), so we do want people to rent to them.

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      4 months ago

      If society wants to host convicted felons then society can pay for it.

      I’ll be more than willing to host them if I am guaranteed the refund of any and all damage they create, and the ability to remove them from my property whenever I want.

      In the meantime, as long as I’m on the hook for damages caused by a bad tenant and I don’t have the legal right to evict a bad tenant on a moment’s notice, then I will filter out convicted felons, and other risky tenants.

      It’s easy to say ‘you should do this thing’ when you have no skin in the game.

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        4 months ago

        You have no skin in the game. You’re literally a rent seeker. Get fucked Mr Lord and then everyone else can afford to buy houses and maintain their own space again.

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          4 months ago

          I have skin in the game. These places I rent didn’t fall on my lap. I work hard to afford them and I am on the hook if someone trashed the place or just decided to stop paying rent.

          All the apartments I bought to rent were available on the same market everyone else had access to.

          In fact, I specifically seek out places that have been on the market for so long I can massively lowball the seller and get away with it. If I can do it, you can do it too.

          The key though, is to actually work towards a goal instead of mindlessly flipping burgers for $7 an hour.

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            4 months ago

            You don’t work. You play with the kind of money that even a QA manager like myself will never have. Only the people who own the business get that money because you’re all leeches who grant yourself the ability to decide who gets what.

            Watch your back.

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              4 months ago

              Lmao I wish I didn’t work, I’d love to get the 48 hours I spent at the mill last week back.

              Maybe get a job that pays better.

              Improve your life instead of bitching at the people who do.

              If you’re a qa manager, you should be making enough money to afford a reasonable place at a reasonable cost. The fact you can’t tells me everything I need to know about you.

              Don’t need to watch my back when lazy mfs like you are the threat.

              Edit: lmao bro posts in porn subs.

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                4 months ago

                You’re not improving your life by working. Your improving your life by being a leech.

                I can afford a reasonable place at these unreasonable costs, but I can’t afford to become a leech.

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                    4 months ago

                    No, that shit is unreasonable. No point in you bringing it up. They’re at least producing some kind of value unlike yourself(except at your job).