• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They can be for profit.

    But limited, a landlord has 1-2 apartments, not 50, and corporations are right out, as are foreign owners.

    Housing needs to be about housing, healthcare needs to focus on healthcare.

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      2 months ago

      I care less about the number of units the landord has(within reason) than where they live. If a guy wants to rent a dozen units a few blocks from his own house, fine. But some asshole 5 states away renting a house he’s never going to lay eyes on? Fuck off.

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      2 months ago

      Housing needs to be about housing, healthcare needs to focus on healthcare.

      That’s why I think profit needs to be eliminated from the equation. With it, the priority will always be maximizing profit, with providing a quality product or service being secondary, or even incidental.

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        2 months ago

        We used to be able to pull it off, then citizens united and other lobbying meant corporations can ‘add to cart’ any laws they want.

        Break campaign finance and things can actually get better.

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      2 months ago

      you can’t both expect profit and good maintenance. pick one, or the other. in all things. that’s why roads aren’t privatized. or the fire brigade. etc.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah, but roads and the fire brigade are shit in many states, because the construction company is run by the governors idiot brother.

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            2 months ago

            Hahaha hahaha.

            Oh, you were being serious? Let me laugh harder.

            The south is just corruption incarnate, they have anti-nepotism laws, they’re trivial to get around.

            Good ol boy network always wins.

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              Yeah, you ain’t wrong. It just feels declasse for me to keep digging up Sherman’s corpse and yelling at him to finish the job.