• The_Caretaker@lemm.ee
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    Ban corporations from owning residential properties. Outlaw rent as a form of slavery. Every person currently renting residential property becomes the owner of the property they’re renting. The 14,000,000 empty residential properties in the USA which are mostly corporate owned get confiscated and distributed based on the needs and skills of the families that need them. Empty 6 bedroom farmhouse on 40 acres of land goes to a family with 5 kids that is willing to farm. One bedroom condominium in the city goes to a single person or a couple. Housing is a human right. Fuck corporations. Tax the wealthy the way they did 80 years ago and use the money to pay for universal health care and free college. Tax robotic labor and AI administrative labor to pay for universal basic income. Let the robots do the work, just give us all our fair share. Nationalize all fossil fuels as a step to phasing them out. When the money from selling oil all goes to the public good rather than corporate profits, it will be much easier to switch to renewables. With free housing, UBI, free college, and universal healthcare in place, lots of people will be interested in having children.

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        You don’t think if people owned the houses and condominiums they live in and had UBI that they would invest in their own home upkeep? My great grandfather cut down some trees and built a house. I’m not suggesting corporations shouldn’t be able to build houses, they just shouldn’t own them. Let corporations own commercial and industrial properties.

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          Your great grandfather lived in a place worse than the house I showed you. Batam in Indonesia is a pretty nice place. Been there, liked it quite a lot.

          It’s not really housing material that is expensive. It’s labour, taxes and the land to build on.

          The building land in my and my brother’s portfolio is valued at 400k euros. Just a piece of land. Good investment right? Belgium’s economy could have gone to utter shit the past few decades and it would be a worthless piece of land.

          Can you force us to sell it? Perhaps. It’s used as a garden.

          Imagine we put an apartment on it and have economic immigrants rent in it. Then randomly these economic immigrants would own the place?

          Well, aight. Then I go to Switzerland and go rent a place and own it as well. I don’t think it will work out well. Basically it would halt globalisation and migration would no longer be viable.

          Which sucks, because nobody here wants to have kids anymore.

          You’re saying extremist things so you need to think them through.

          Aight. Renting is outlawed. You can’t speculate on building land anymore. What happens now?

          Developments halt because these people have a lower amount of capital. Lower amount of capital means lower economies of scale. Lower quality buildings. Worse for energy usage. Bad usage of space.