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OSRS_Rising t1_jbp1mh7 wrote

Reply to comment by refreshertowel in New York landlord becomes legal guardian of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor: 'She had no one else' by Imguran

I pay around 25% if my income a year for housing and some back-of-the-napkin math says I’ll have paid what the average home in my state costs after 25-ish years.

But I don’t want a home or land. I’m paying for a product I actually want and it feels classist to assume that there’s only one “right” way of living life—owning a home.

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newbutnotreallynew t1_jbozqn9 wrote

Reply to comment by OSRS_Rising in New York landlord becomes legal guardian of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor: 'She had no one else' by Imguran

That service can also be provided by some entity that isn‘t profit seeking. Especially with modern technology, it shouldn‘t be any trouble at all to manage a part of housing stock for temporary accommodations without a bunch of wealthy people as inbetween. Make it something like nonprofit/coop or rent controls, if you don‘t want to go for full on socialism.

Vienna is actually a good real life example for this in action even under capitalism, where the city owns huge apartment blocks and thus keep the prices generally lower, since space is available that is not for profit.

Here, found an article explaining it: https://housing4.us/how-vienna-ensures-affordable-housing-for-all-with-an-extremely-complicated-housing-system/

That one might actually explain a bit better to how this came about too: https://www.politico.eu/article/vienna-social-housing-architecture-austria-stigma/amp/

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refreshertowel t1_jbozpox wrote

Reply to comment by Butt_Bucket in New York landlord becomes legal guardian of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor: 'She had no one else' by Imguran

My entire garden is either local flora to help our native bees and other insects live or produce and that produce is freely shared with any people around me. My neighbours are entirely free to enter my yard whenever they want and to take any crops that interest them. Any neighbourhood kids have free reign over my yard, and there's often little football matches playing out in my front yard (as long as they don't damage the garden, as that is a communal resource).

While I'm forced to participate in this gross facade we have built as a society in order not to live in squalor, I'm very happy to share "my" land with those around me.

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Tambe t1_jboz35o wrote

Reply to comment by burid00f in Sudbury SNOLAB makes scientific breakthrough in monitoring nuclear power by Maldor95

The principle behind applying this research towards homeland security is well-known, and the DoD actually have backed a neutrino detector dedicated to non-proliferation and monitoring called "Watchman".

Interestingly, OP is correct in that the American has no interest or influence on the experiment in the article. In fact, the SNO+ experiment (backed primarily by Canada and the UK) is actively competing with other upcoming American-led experiments backed by the DOE and DOD.

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refreshertowel t1_jboytcq wrote

Reply to comment by OSRS_Rising in New York landlord becomes legal guardian of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor: 'She had no one else' by Imguran

I "own" my own house. It's not the greatest house and has needed many repairs throughout the years I've been living here. The amount of money I have saved by not paying rent over that time is literally mindboggling. You are caught in a trap you do not realise. Unless you are a millionaire renting a condo and using it as a tax writeoff or some other absurd situation, you are literally being fucked in the arse by your landlord, no matter how much you try to justify it.

If your time is so valuable that a phone call and repair costs for any item in your house is worth less to you than the time taken to do it then you should own your house already. If your time is not that valuable, then your decade/lifetime rent costs will outpace any possible repairs/maintanence by huge amounts.

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