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Re:U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system ... by lisper on Sunday April 21, 2019 @01:12PM (#19713164)
It's the same economically, but not the same psychologically.
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Re:U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system ... by skybrian on Sunday April 21, 2019 @01:21PM (#19713219)
You're asserting that, but not really giving evidence for it. Do people with very long-term leases really think any differently from home owners? Why?
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Re:U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system ... by lisper on Sunday April 21, 2019 @01:32PM (#19713305)
I don't know. I don't think this experiment has ever been done before.
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Re:U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system ... by taysic on Sunday April 21, 2019 @05:58PM (#19714823)
You can think of rent control as a long term lease. It seems that population is generally also NIMBY.
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Re:U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system ... by lisper on Sunday April 21, 2019 @06:00PM (#19714837)
I don't see how rent control and a long-term lease are at all comparable. Can you elaborate?
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Re:U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system ... by skybrian on Sunday April 21, 2019 @07:00PM (#19715109)
They both lock in a price. A long-term lease specifies what the rent will be for the length of the lease.
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Re:U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system ... by lisper on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:00AM (#19716864)
That's kind of like saying that you can think of a car as a roller skate because they each have four wheels.

A lease is a contract arrived at by mutual agreement. Rent control is imposed unilaterally as a government fiat.

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Re:U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system ... by taysic on Saturday May 04, 2019 @01:59PM (#19828059)
In relation to NIMBYism the effects are the same
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