axEl7fB5Satire is indistinguishable from stupidity
DivineDevUp until the communism part I thought they were endorsing him.
I mean, maybe they are a communist, and like the ideas and are endorsing him!
dont you mean marxist part.
How the fuck is a higher minimum wage anything but our current system?
I’m not convinced it’s not satire
They need to base politicians salaries off minimum wage. If they only earned a salary based off 4-5x the minimum wage, that shit would never be lagging as bad as it is now
this only works if they stop them from being able to hold investments in companies, and markets, then pass laws for, as well as getting rid of political donations. If we don’t do that their salary going down would only negatively affect the small number of congress members that want actual change to things.
vaultdweller013I have a solution, make it legal to kill politicians who hold investments or take bribes. They become outlaw and anything done to them is just the consequences of their actions.
Why 4x minimum wage? How could they represent the poorest people in a country if they make quadruple the money?
If they cant live with minimum wage, its their problem to solve
If they cant live with minimum wage, its their problem to solve
It’s [supposed to be] a demanding position. Relative to the skills we should be demanding these people to have, the pay they currently get is actually not that impressive.
4 times as demanding sounds kinda funny. 254000× or whatever sounds like religious fairy tales. To the guillotines.
Wtf are you talking about? Congress’s salary is only ~178k.
Congress is the 4. Private sector is the ∞.
No one in this thread had mentioned private sector. Try to stay on topic.
I just mentioned it. Thanks anyway!
$20 is socialism and $30 is communism. I’m sure Karl Marx said something like that.
Why oh why do we peg it to a number rather than to a metric, even if it were Big Macs ffs!!!
It’s not the already obscenely rich accumulating more wealth to the detriment of everyone else, which is the inevitable consequence of the current system of laissez faire capitalism.
For some reason the quotes around the word free make it seem not satirical to me.
UnderpantsWeevilIf Communism is when wages go up and cost of living goes down, what is Capitalism?
assets get concentrated, rent goes up
That’s just the efficiency of the free market. Mamdani would ruin a perfect system.
This system is already about as perfect as I can handle
Lucy :3Next step: Everything goes to shit for normal people, they vote for fascists. Fascists take over, and people get concentrated as well, into camps.
What’s the rent there like and what happens to my student l*ans and is life outside the camp worth living anyway?
Existence, privatized.
jumping redditor [they/them]cost of living goes up quality of living goes up (for some) and the poor get poorer
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“I’m a central banker.” I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner.
My favorite part lol
There’s a lot of good ideas in there, but rent freezes aren’t one of them. Limiting what you can charge for a service just means less people will want to provide that service.
Yes landlords will just take their houses overseas.
Even if you just talk about building new homes, freezing rent just caps the profits that can be pulled out of a project. If it’s profitable right now, why shouldn’t it be with same income tomorrow?
Because costs only go up, that’s why. It may not be profitable tomorrow at all.
pelespiritThen sell your property.
to whom? unless the rent can change (which it realistically shouldn’t if the law is written well) it still won’t be profitable
People make bad investments all the time.
and they have every right to complain about the government making a half decent one into a horrible one
And normal people have a right to not care about people leeching off of actual workers.
And if you’re talking about homeowners, I still don’t care. You don’t deserve imaginary free money for owning land. Its for living in, not an investment.
Go buy some stocks and stop being selfish.
Then lift the freeze once there’s no profit left anymore, or just keep the freeze for existing buildings. Limit the rent increase etc.
The issue here is, and this has happened before, investors will either sell the property, meaning those not in a position to buy are screwed, or they will do the bare minimum to keep the building functioning, as there is no incentive to improve the building.
Sell to whom?
The banks, of course. They’ll buy anything.
And what do they do with that investment?
LumidaubSell to Aquaman.
Oh, that’s very simple. Warehousing! They need storage space for their gold, and their typical warehouses aren’t big enough to hold it all.
Owner-occupiers typically.
That sounds like it’s solving the problem, then.
If you can afford to buy a property, sure.
How would somebody buy it if nobody could afford it?
They already only do the bare minimum. You practically have to take your landlord to court to get any meaningful fixes in your apartment. All new developments are built like shit, developers cut corners anywhere they can. After the building is built the developer “vanishes” so there isn’t anyone to sue when there is something seriously wrong with the building. They just open a new throw away LLC later and put up another shit building. You must not live in NYC
Problem easily solved. Is a building not being utilized? Seize it and pay the owner fair market value, then have the city administrator it and charge just enough rent to cover expenses of maintenance and improvement and administration.
So why not skip the rent control and go straight to this?
Fair market value is much, much lower 9n rent controlled property
Yeah, a government deliberately lowering property values so they can buy them cheap isn’t a great precedent.
Won’t somebody think of Blackrock?
_AutumnMoon_It’s not great, It’s fantastic. Let the scumbags who own property they don’t use lose money!
thale same strategy will be used to build more freeways through low income neighborhoods
To give the current owners the chance to do the right thing, and make a small but reasonable gain from their property.
And to make it more palatable to the general public. It’s a lot easier to convince people to go along with it if you’re seizing empty unused properties that are only empty and unused because the owner refuses to rent them if they’re not making excessive profit.
investors will either sell the property
Good. Investors rather than inhabitants owning homes is a huge part of why rent and property prices have skyrocketed.
they will do the bare minimum to keep the building functioning
They already do that in order to maximize profits.
there is no incentive to improve the building.
Ever heard of this new thing called laws and regulations? It’s the only “incentive” that actually DOES work to correct the behavior of greedy slumlords.
Letting them keep increasing the already obscenely high rents just means more profits for them in return for no benefit for anyone else.
Cost of what?
Yes landlords will just take their houses overseas.
You think landlords are going to move overseas so they can landlord somewhere else?
Honestly, if there actually are people like that, then good riddance. They sound like slum lords. Parasites.