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Re:S.F. landlords, property owners sue to block voter-approv... by camgunz on Monday February 13, 2023 @08:21PM (#34783813)
All kinds of industries have regulations. You can't go into the medical devices industry and get super pissed at the FDA when they tell you you can't sell your stuff without their approval. You could argue "hey it's my property and I'll sell it if I want to", but that won't work and for good reason.

Becoming a landlord is going into business, and there are regulations and risk. Sometimes you go bust. That's life. If you picked up a property that's somehow unrentable in SF you should sell tickets, I'm sure a lot of people would love to see what kind of insane hellhole you couldn't get someone to rent for even $1 to avoid the tax.

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Re:S.F. landlords, property owners sue to block voter-approv... by voisin on Monday February 13, 2023 @08:26PM (#34783852)
This isn’t a regulation about how business can be operated. Yes it is risk, and it is punishing someone for already being on the losing end of that risk.

It’s like taxing startups for not having found product-market fit and not making sales. Do you support that?

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Re:S.F. landlords, property owners sue to block voter-approv... by camgunz on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:01PM (#34784145)
It's not like that, unless your startup is hogging a scarce, universal human need.
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Re:S.F. landlords, property owners sue to block voter-approv... by voisin on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:07PM (#34784200)
> unless your startup is hogging a scarce, universal human need.

Like talented engineers that could be put to other social use, just like those empty buildings?

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Re:S.F. landlords, property owners sue to block voter-approv... by camgunz on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:30PM (#34784451)
You know, call me an optimist but I think humanity could muddle through without us SWEs. But, kinda do need that housing though. Confident 10/10 people would choose house over software engineer. Especially anyone whose identity was stolen in a breach, whose kids are addicted to or victimized by social media, or scammed by crypto, etc etc etc.
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