>leave
>find out its actually worse elsewhere
Many such cases
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I was telling an American about the car taxes in most EU nations the other day. ๐
how feedback effects work.
when you make it impossible to fire someone, you make it impossible to get hired. and so on.
@prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer Holy shit. Why? Is it really that bad? I thought it was bad that I had to provide my SSN, employer information, pay-stubs and tax return documentation, and submit to a credit check just to apply for an apartment. Housing out be a human right, it should be accessible and affordable.
@prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer Idk how that applies. All I know is that housing should not be viewed as an investment item, it should be a widespread commodity, it should be easy to access and afford. It's the baseline by which wealth can be generated for individuals---if you're homeless, if it's virtually impossible to lock down good, secure property with which you can start amassing wealth and/or building roots, if the majority of your paycheck goes towards paying rent...you're not going to get anywhere. You're fucked. Like spinning your tires around in mud.
Companies shouldn't. A person has rights, a company has privileges.
@prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer I do agree. I think housing should be both incentivized and penalized. It's the same exact idea I have with children. E.g.
First X (house or child) is subsidized. Second X provides zero assistance or subsidies or rewards. All subsequent X confer penalties which increase with every additional X.
Make it easy for people to have a home and to have children. Make it super fucking expensive for people to have 5 homes or 5 kids, for example.
@prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer heh, this reminds me some dude looking for a white country that was against the US, but wasn't socialist or communist because he didn't want his kids to be assimilated by globohomo. That poor soul isn't ready for reality โโ
Reality: https://youtu.be/SS7Vxa2Ys34?si=Cp2AUZxY4oucnlFh
@arcana@fedi.layer02.net @Dicey@decayable.ink @sun_eat3r@goreslut.xyz @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer you can always denounce your american citizenship, nothing (on the US side) is stopping you
@sun_eat3r @prettygood NL in particular has a fucked up housing market
didnโt need any of that for any of the apartments i checked out (germany)
@arcana@fedi.layer02.net Deregulation and privatization has basically always been proven false/failed solutions to problems like this. It's to a point where I consider anyone who assets otherwise to be a bad actor knowingly pushing bad treatments for ulterior motives. @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer
