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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The boot licking is strong with this one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, honestly I think the estimate may be low, or perhaps white the death toll is not what is expected the actual quality of life is going to take a huge bit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah. Don't blame people at all for not having kids. Frankly the planet probably needs less humans.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (10 children)

27,000 deaths a day approximately. According to the WHO 150,000 people die every day right now. 385,000 people are born every day. I mean it sounds bad, but in this context it doesn't sound that bad....

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is getting old. Regardless you said you inherited a house, fwiw. You live how you want. I live in the way I want. I admit my part in Canada's housing crisis. But I couldn't sell my children's future for moral high ground. You come across as sanctimonious. You speak from an imagined high ground with the assumption that you know what is good for everyone. That's your right. So you do you. Have a good one.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because to start with, I invested and risked my own money a much less bubbled deal estate market with a significant amount of my available capital. You invested someone else's money. I took all the risk, and you want me to give away all the profits from that risk. Even your "green" investments take advantage of workers, buy off shore parts, cost people their jobs. Why don't you donate all your profits to those people. Your entire argument is so steeped in hypocrisy that it's hard to even know if you're not just a troll.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

This is very much the problem with the Canadian real estate bubble. People are paying rental prices now that absolutely could have paid for a house 5 years ago. But now they are paying a dangerously high portion of their income. The problem is that their rental prices that they pay now wouldn't make the payments on the house today.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I realize you aren't going to agree, but these two situations aren't the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I mean, I get what you're saying. And perhaps if my financial situation was better I could consider the option to offer the houses to the tenants. But as you suspect I will not trade my children's financial security just to be charitable. The rent I charge is 30%-40% below market value. I suspect if you were in my position you wouldn't be so inclined to give away your wealth either.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice, I hope the app is making enough to keep the updates coming.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I'm a land lord, did exactly what people say we all did. 15 years ago I bought two 200k homes for 30k each.. they are an income plan for my kids so they don't have to necessarily worry about taking a better paying job instead of something they want to do. Probably a little naive now. But I run the houses at a bare minimum profit just so the government won't come after me due running a loss on my taxes. I have raised rent only enough to do that. I pay for a property management firm to take care of the properties so that the tenants have 24 hour response to issues. I've had the same tenants for 12 years in both properties. Every 4 years or so I have one of the rooms that the tenants want renovated. It's a right off so doesn't costa fortune ava the house gets slowly updated. Not every landlord is an asshole. Some of us play the long game without screwing people. But I realize that I am part of the problem. I am part of the reason for less supply in the market. But selling my properties will make my children's lives less secure and I'm not willing to do that. So i do partially deserve some of the blame.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Probably a better choice, I just picked the first thing that came up under the news search.

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