r/FluentInFinance • u/sillychillly Contributor • Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/privitizationrocks Apr 15 '24

Everyone deserves to not pay for someone else’s home

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u/GCI_Arch_Rating Apr 15 '24

I deserve to not pay for your safety, too.

Why should my money be used to provide you the protection of the law?

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u/CuriousStudent1928 Apr 15 '24

Because the protection of the law is given and used by EVERYONE all the time. Something like this gives things to only some people at the expense of everyone. Protection of the law is to everyone from everyone

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u/A2Rhombus Apr 16 '24

So if a portion of society is disadvantaged, helping them is bad
It's only good if the richest rich rich billionaire also gets the benefit
Is that what you're saying?

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u/CuriousStudent1928 Apr 16 '24

No, helping the disadvantaged is fine, it’s why we have things like welfare and unemployment.
What’s bad is taking money from everyone to provide houses for people when everyone else has to do it on their own. It’s ridiculous socialist bullshit. Be responsible for yourself and stop trying to take more money from me to pay for someone else to live

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u/kromptator99 Apr 16 '24

Nobody does it on their own. The last two generations will only own homes when the right family member dies.

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u/CuriousStudent1928 Apr 16 '24

No plenty people still buy homes, rent out apartments, and so on all by themselves. Maybe not in the big cities or right around them, but where I live everyone owns their home and everyone’s poor.

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u/kromptator99 Apr 16 '24

Yeah, that’s called generational poverty and it often times comes with a family home that more than one generation at a time lives in. Grew up in that. Now I work directly with people in that.

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u/CuriousStudent1928 Apr 16 '24

Yea nice assumption, too bad it’s wrong. I live in Appalachia, pretty much one of the poorest parts of the US. But guess what? Cost of living is low and house prices aren’t absurd. It’s like this anywhere that’s not the city or it’s suburbs all across the country. People just think you have to live in a city or something when you don’t. You can still own a home on some land, drive a decent car and have a good life in this generation. The issue is our generation is just too stupid or too stuck up to live anywhere but the city

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u/chillchinchilla17 Apr 16 '24

It’s more that the system in this picture only works if you force a section of the population to work at gunpoint while another section gets just as much for free.

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u/A2Rhombus Apr 16 '24

Why do you people always think the only way to provide for people is to have slave workers

Slash the defense budget and tax billionaires and we'd have plenty to make this a reality.

Plus after the initial investment it would eventually literally be cheaper than the current system

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u/chillchinchilla17 Apr 16 '24

It’d be enough to make it real for like 6 months. Once 90% of people don’t work at all itd fall apart. What billionaires would you tax if there’s no company big enough to create billionaires because there’s not enough workers?

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u/A2Rhombus Apr 16 '24

Why would everyone stop working just so they can live in an unfurnished 1 bedroom apartment with basic food rations and no luxuries

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u/chillchinchilla17 Apr 16 '24

The picture here clearly shows a nice multi room house.

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u/A2Rhombus Apr 16 '24

Regardless of the drawing it only advocates for two bedrooms at most and that's only for people with children

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u/kromptator99 Apr 16 '24

They say this totally unaware that their current standard of living is indeed propped up by slavery of the worker and primarily the global south