• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    “It doesn’t work” because profits. If you are in socialized housing there is no need for profit. It’s also kinda absurd to think that, were rent fixed, that there would not be a sea change in how housing and regulations surrounding housing works. It’s myopic to simply say “fixed rent costs = landlords stopping maintaining property” or some such. It would have to be comprehensive, not a sudden, poorly thought out decree like trump would do.

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      1 day ago

      There’s always a need for profit, otherwise you end up with Chinese ghost cities with millions of empty and rotting homes. They will also become a huge environmental catastrophe there quite soon.

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            37 minutes ago

            I’m not sure we could go back to the stone age, as a society. That would require collective amnesia. We can’t simply forget electricity and wavefunctions, QSARs.

            Mind you, some people are still living a stone age mindset.

            There are other options than a single choice to regress.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Christ dude don’t be so damn binary. Both your comments are. There is nobody saying everyone will or must live in socialized housing in this hypothetical.

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          Then why bring it up? We’re talking about a system of private housing with a profit incentive