Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too
by lmm on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:22AM
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Living in a particular place is always a choice. You shouldn't be entitled to get the same house at half the price just because of the accident of where you happened to be born.
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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too
by paddy_m on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @12:02PM
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There is a large section of the SF Bay area that is horrified at the idea of closed borders, yet they are as horrified at the idea of anyone new or poor moving into their neighborhood.
Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too
by coldtea on Thursday March 28, 2019 @05:34AM
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Why not? If you were born there, you should have claims there.
Would you extend this idea to property? After all everything you've inherited is like that too (an accident of birth). How about parents? Perhaps children should be assigned to random families at birth, to keep it fair? How about citizenship? Would you give up your citizenship because you being an X citizen is just an "accident of birth" (and as such not really entitled to it)?
People don't have "accidents of birth". People are born in a place because their parents moved there. And the important part comes after the birth: people grew up there, played there as kids, connected with the place, etc. A place is part of a person's life history. It's not just a consumer good up for grabs by the highest bidder.