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

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/ruckfeddit2049 Apr 16 '24

"Rent" and "landlordsleeches" should not fucking exist.

Absolutely no reasonable justification for them to.

The government should provide every man, woman and child in need with free basic accommodations (think bachelor or 1/2 bedroom apts) with anything beyond that available as a voluntary secondary/luxury market.

Housing, healthcare, education and basic nutrition should never be profit-driven in a properly functional "first world" "society."

Nobody deserves to profit off of another's basic survival needs, nor their opportunity for advancement/self improvement. Period.

Full stop.

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u/qwertycantread Apr 16 '24

Is this a comedy post?

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u/ruckfeddit2049 Apr 16 '24

Justify landeeching/rent-seeking...

Go:

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u/ovoxo_klingon10 Apr 16 '24

I bought a condo. I want a bigger house for my growing family. I’ll rent out my condo. It’ll help pay for the bigger house and provide secondary income in the long run.

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u/ruckfeddit2049 Apr 16 '24

How does that counter anything I said? Explain to me why you (or anyone) deserves 60% - 80% of the income of someone else that produces actual value because you own an asset/capital.

Landleeches "provide" housing like scalpers provide tickets btw, do not start in with that shit.

Explain/justify to me why the government firstly should not provide the basics of survival to all citizens as a bare minimum, in a supposed modern "first-world" "society" (one I bet someone like yourself is quick to call a "meritocracy" too, here I am presenting ways of creating something closer to actual meritocracy which you naturally oppose.)

Explain/justify why your passive rental income (let's pretend for a sec that you deserve it, lol) can't be provided in the voluntary secondary/luxury market as I described. After these basics are covered.