Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)
by tiborsaas on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @01:06PM
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Comparing developed nations to America is kinda unfair, but ok :) My point was that just because somebody is a landlord it's not the root of all evil. (I'm not one).
Governments can and do create programs to support families (too bad for singles in my country) but at the end getting all this for free is probably a utopia.
Affordable home ownership exists everywhere, but nobody wants to move to most of those places, people need more than a roof above their heads, but that comes at a cost.
Other countries - notably Finland and Austria, among others - have no problem providing reasonable state housing at reasonable cost.
Finland houses its homeless as a matter of course because it turns out to be hugely cheaper than the alternatives, economically and politically.
Some of those countries also score well on affordable private home ownership.
America doesn't - because the idea of a government that buffers its citizens from private sector exploitation is against the guiding creed of economic narcissism.