In a capitalist system, the government could print the money to give out a loan and destroy that money once the loan gets payed back to soften inflation.

But ideally, building housing shouldn’t be done for profit, either. But I guess that would require capitalism to be abolished. Which would be - again - ideal.

It intrigues me now, how you would “fix” this and make it so that people don’t have to work to have housing?

First things first: there are already a bunch of people who don’t have to work for their housing. A big part of those may have to work for an income so that they can pay for upkeep. But get rich enough and that can get payed by dividends. Or they’re landlords who get enough income from rent. Those rich people don’t have to work at all for their housing.

we already have social housing in my country.

That’s cool for the people who get it. But I’d be surprised if your home country has no homeless people and vacant housing at the same time.

We have universal healthcare, we have a bunch of social programs for people in need and we have automatic unemployment paid from social insurance. People on disability don’t work, people’s pension is covered by the state.

Do those people on social programs actually have a comfortable life, though? Or is it rather “too little to live, too much to die”? I’m quite sure that landlords still make a lot of profit from rent in that country.

What measures should we add to make it so you don’t have to work for your home?

Introduce a usufruct model of owning, where the people who live in a home actually own it (either as a family home, or multiple homes owned by a coop). The important bit is that rent-seeking is abolished in housing. Then you might still need to work for upkeep, but that’s a diminishino part of what people need to pay for rent, nowadays.

and if the election goes my preferred parties way, it will be fixed in the next cycle.

If your country is capitalist, I highly doubt that they will implement this. Profits are still required by capitalist states.

However all these things are being paid for, concrete doesn’t pour itself, steel doesn’t manufacture itself, building don’t build themselves, so how do you propose we make it so that we don’t have to pay for our homes?

I said “work as to not go homeless”. You’re bringing “paying” into it. There’s already a lot of place to live. Ideally, I’d see a communist society where this kind of stuff is planned on the basis of needs, rather than being speculated on in markets for profit

You could get rid of housing being a means for landlords to profit from and hold housing in a usufruct property relation, and/or in common. Building and maintaining housing can be managed by the community (or be payed for by the community).

Almost everyone has to work to not become homeless.

That’s true. Let’s fix that.

And still: Do you pay 30 to 50% of your income in your own home for that?

In fact, I not only have an apartment I have an older house on a bigger lot and you know what? The idea that I become slave to my house and garden upkeep that I would have to cut grass during the weekends instead of having the freedom to do whatever I want frightens the fuck out of me.

You know what’s worse than “becoming a slave to [your] house”? Having to work as to not become homeless.

You found the only liberal argument for healthcare.

Doctor Princess?

Doctor Kelso?

Doctor No?

Doctor Nick?

Look who found the source of their wealth: The labor of the lower class. /s

Not working on voyager. ;_;

Sometimes it feels like the opposite of meditation where I can feel something tugging “up” in the top center of my skull when “reading” one of those pages but don’t remember what the page was about.

This is your brain on slop.

Searxng and ddg? Nice! 🤩🤩

Thanks a bunch! ❤️

The text is definetly slop, though.

Neat… Is there an alternative for people who don’t use google? 😅

… did you watch the video? The video doesn’t agree with the book.