Hugucinogens

Nah, I think today’s generation can really enjoy orange flavor, it’s just harder to get to the dish, for now.

How dare you speak this way about SatansMagottyCumFart.

You insult their honor.

The problem is being a landlord as a job. The problem is rich people buying up housing (or land and building on it) they don’t use, in order to rent for profit.

It’s about everyone who has no house. All the people who have no alternative, apart from renting from some rich people.

If someone “allowed” others to live in his house, without demanding half their salary, you wouldn’t see me complaining.

And the reason that buying or building a house is so expensive, is explicitly because rich people clamber over each other, to make the best investment of their lives: Housing.

One heavily oversimplified answer, from the many possible ideas, is:

Nationally built cheap housing, with minimal or no rent. That means, housing as a public good, like nationally owned water and electricity companies.

Hm, I see your point about clarity.

My original comment “landlords shouldn’t be allowed to own houses” was a joke, in the sense that it is an impossible paradox, with the implied statement being “landlords shouldn’t exist”.

That is indeed the prevailing view on this platform, because it’s a leftist/marxist/anarchist platform, mostly.

I might not be the right person to give you a pointer directly into the theory of those, but I have a number of YouTubers I really like, that talk about these issues, and make incredibly good explanations.

Two I’m really into, lately, are NonCompete, and Unlearning Economics, that have some great video essays, the first one about communist perspectives, the second going in depth against things that are considered “common sense” in capitalist economics, and their real results when actually looked at.

I’d say you can click on their channels and click whatever interests you most (NonCompete has a video on thought terminating clichés lol), but I can also recommend a couple specific videos:

On NonCompete, there’s a video that contains a pretty good explanation of what is called the class war, that is, what tools the rich use, to keep the poor working. Housing costing so much, is one of those tools.

On Unlearning Economics, there is a personal favorite of mine, Free stuff is good actually. It’s more about the adjacent philosophies, but you can easily extrapolate from it, to housing, if you like spending an hour listening to a guy talking about economics lol.

Internet comments are so bad at conveying rich ideas, and so easy to not notice the humanity behind people, that it’s refreshing to have people like you answer, with the honest intent behind what they wrote. I hope what I sent interests you!

I’d hope it was a thought commencing slogan, maybe giving people curiosity as to think:

“How could another sapient person believe something so different from my own beliefs? That person is even making it a joke, therefore they must have had it bouncing around in their brain a bunch, so they must believe it and think about it a lot. Huh, maybe there is something more to know, and think about.”

I even made a comment with a small answer, to the other person, who asked like a human.

Clearly didn’t work on you though.

Imagine houses that don’t cost nine and a half fortunes, because they are not considered one of the most profitable ways to invest, for the richest people in the world.

Housing doesn’t have to be prohibitively expensive, whether temporary or permanent residences.

It’s not about temporary living in a place not existing, it’s about forbidding the ways that rich people go about making housing scarce, and corner markets.

That was a kind of aggressive way for me to express that, but, in all seriousness, the reason is that:

Being a “landlord”, that is, very specifically, an “owner of houses you don’t live in, but rent to people for profit”, is a way to live that is inherently abusive to the people you rent to.

You have ownership of a basic good people need to survive (housing), which is effectively scarce (because it’s not allowed for just anyone to build a house without incredible amounts of money, even homelessness is fairly illegal in many places), and you say to people:

“Either give me a monthly fee for me to allow you to have a roof over your head, or I’m calling the police (the only people allowed to be violent in the country) to kick you out”

It’s a way of making money, where the owner doesn’t do anything helpful to society, except find people who are desperate to survive, and milk them of what they make.

Landlords shouldn’t be able to own homes.

Bet the price will be absolutely prohibitive, letting only the rich use them.

Bet it will be used to shield the rich from the consequences of failing medical systems.

I’m not saying it’s a bad technology, I’m saying it’s being developed by the time, money, and effort, and for the benefit of parasites, assuming it’s not just marketing for a cash-grab startup.

“Always”?

Well…

DupaCycki said it better than I could, some hours ago:

Absolutely insane how little it takes for people to worship a mega corporation that was caught abusing employees and publicly lying for years just the other day.

Yeah, there is a pretty big number of new bot accounts all the time. They are most often used to post propaganda and reactionary bait, to tire people out.

That’s a small part of the reason reddit went to shit, it’s now more bots than people.

That’s why you’ll see many people here telling you to “act like a person”. Most people here don’t want Lemmy to be a place for us to just consume content. It’s not about the memes. Whoever wants an unending stream of memes to pass their time, can just go to insta, and scroll to their hearts’ content.

The memes and the posting, are sorta meant to be part of a discussion, like posting your opinion on things, via memes. What you say, is important. Like how the comments in this post here are saying, politically, that “normal” is actually “angry”, due to where we are in the world right now.

Edit:

Just to make it clear in case I was being negative, you posting, posting anything, whether it’s things people agree with, things that are just fun, or even things people might disagree with, is great!

Your mindset of bringing content in so the communities are alive, is very good! Just try to leave some time, for people to discuss the post in the comments. Talk about it with each other, make up their minds.

Think about it as if every post you make, is a room. You have to let people walk in, look around, talk to each other, and leave.

If you make an art gallery with 50 new rooms a day, people won’t want to come see your gallery as much, because there’s too much stuff, and not enough time to understand it.

For the record,

• the burst-posting (3 images at a time),

• generic memes,

• account in one of the biggest instances,

• posting exclusively in the one main meme community,

• the post of a single political-pretending-not-to-be political meme (this one), and

• the exactly 2 comments made ever,

are all also very suspect, many bots act in this exact way, and then abandon the account for a couple months to let it age. It seems fishy to me too.

But it is very possible that it is just someone overenthusiastic, and new to the fediverse, so let’s not take up arms, better to let a few bots slip than make real people bounce away I think.

Let’s see at least if they respond, or abandon the account, to judge.

Yeah, me not knowing about other threads and seeing the comment, followed by the front page post meme was a funny experience. Such a deeply human-drama situation, Lemmy really is awesome haha

If you’re curious, I wrote a few of my thoughts on a comment here, kinda sorta answering why I made that call-out.

It’s hard to explain, but it’s one of the many things that are maddening to me, with AAA titles.

I’ve played absurdly good indie games. Absurdly good indie games aren’t even rare, they come out all the time, faster than someone can play even just all the ones they like.

Meanwhile, Big Games’ success happens simply because they are the only ones with access to the spotlight, and our culture absorbs them as deserving of enormous praise, masterpieces, and the like.

If you really, really, REALLY boil my point down to its core, I guess what I meant to say is

Capitalism bad.

And when I saw the word Remaster, after Bethesda’s and Activision’s last few years of “business”, and the Cyberpunk fiasco, I was on a hair trigger.

Apart from that though, it wasn’t nearly as “Game I didn’t like” as it looks.

Hating a game is not disliking it. I really liked Witcher, and loved what it could have been. My experience playing it, was “being let down”, by all the Shit that could have been, but wasn’t.

If you want to see someone going on a deeper such spiral than me, check out SkittyBitty’s Tears of the Kingdom review, on YouTube.

Wow, a post about me personally, without mentioning me, or the event that spawned it? I feel honored!

For anyone not knowing what this post is, just check our interaction with scrubbles here:

https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/comment/6891346

Well fuck me. I’ll take that L.

I was proven a negative Nancy.

Not gonna lie, I’ve sunk around 100 hours into this game(no dlcs), and it’s felt like such a one-trick pony. Good main story is well written. Cool. Indeed.

Gameplay is so incredibly ass after the first 20 minutes, where the game looks promising, so it builds anticipation for all the rpg systems, that fail hard at their jobs. Economy, Levels, and crafting, are ass the moment you start using them.

And by god, the secondary writing of the micro-quests that are supposed to make the world feel lived in was “passable filler” at its best, and the “Follow the Orange Highlight” was unavoidable half the time.

It is a game that was cobbled together around a book’s story, and honestly has aged horribly.

And honestly, seeing them re-release it a-la Skyrim, after Cyberpunk’s whole ordeal, feels like such a Corporate move.

(Getting it in before someone tries to tell me it’s going to have revamped systems according to the release trailer, forgive me for not trusting the company until the game comes out and we see the results… In the meantime, I’ll be waiting to see how much they charge for the repair and prettying up of a game they already made ten years ago. I hope I’ll be proven to be just a negative Nancy.)

Edit:

Barryamelton said:

It’s free. It’s there in the trailer.

Well fuck me, I'll take that L. I was proven a negative Nancy.

Wait, what’s the difference between FLOSS and FOSS?

Something a bit more than 7.5cm, less secure.