Re:Why the government took home prices out of its main infla...
by nradov on Friday May 27, 2022 @12:43PM
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Renting a home is in no way comparable to slavery. Your comment is offensive, inflammatory, and off topic.
Re:Why the government took home prices out of its main infla...
by ClumsyPilot on Friday May 27, 2022 @02:44PM
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I think you are misunderstanding my argument - the statement is not 'renting is like slavery'
The argument put forward previously was 'people were starting families without X, therefore people not having X isn't a problem', where X was a house.
I was trying to demonstrate that no matter what you substitute for X, even something extreme like basic human rights, people were still starting families, therefore either we should not be concerned about anything, or the argument is flawed.
Also many people were rendered homeless or pushed into poverty by the current housing crisis, and I am sure those folks find the argument proposed above offensive and inflammatory.
Re:Why the government took home prices out of its main infla...
by imtringued on Saturday May 28, 2022 @09:00AM
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You're saying people that decided that only a subset of the people that want to live there should live there are angry that they got to be excluded by their own favoured policy? They are plain hypocrites.
What wisdom does this argument lead us to - basic hygene and human right are superfluous?