• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Fuck all the greedy landlords. Kudos to all landlords out there who charge rent based on a persons income and don’t feel a need to charge what “The Market” dictates.

    • MalMen@sh.itjust.works
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      11 hours ago

      the problem is not the landlords playing the market prices, its the unregulated market… the guys making the legislation are landlords themselves, they are profiting with this shitty market

      • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        Same here in the UK. Foreign ppl and companies buy land and property here as an investment, often leaving it empty. While people sleep on the streets outside.

        This is one reason I’m an advocate of squatting, and have spent many years living in squats. It’s increasingly difficult, of course, because the landowners are buying politicians and tightening legislation.

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          5 hours ago

          Same here in Canada. We also got immigrants who were made a false promise and are now the new underclass with no real upward mobility.

          • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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            4 hours ago

            Heh, funnily enough we also have a whole lot of immigrants, legal and illegal, many of whom came here on false promises of prosperity and are now, like you say, a new underclass. Lots of them do Uber eats etc. And they’re exploited, particularly the illegals who have no recourse to the workplace protections that the rest of us do, crap as they are.

            Regardless of how ppl feel about immigrants and illegal immigrants, it’s hard to deny that many of these ppl are getting fucked over hard.

            (Btw I got no problem with immigrants. Just wish they weren’t so often an underclass that they kinda stick with their compatriots and don’t always integrate or learn English. This denies them opportunities and is not cool for the social fabric as a whole. But I can’t feel badly about other workers who just want to get by and maybe send money home to their families). In their situation, I’d prob do the same.

            Thing is, it’s gonna be a growing trend. The right wingers are all hot against illegal immigrants and deportation etc, but the fact is that increasing numbers of British natives, whatever their ethnicity, are not having kids or having fewer kids because they can’t afford to. And if you want economic growth to continue you need more consumers and more vulnerable, desperate workers. Hence, immigration. Number go up.

            Fuckin capitalism, eh.