2 months behind in rent

[carn tigez]

I am completely serious - Yeh, it's a rather different way to think about things actually run, but it doesn't mean that I am not serious....

and yes.. food should just be for eating also, though it is a lot easier to circumvent the process of food under lock and key (in the affluent West anyway) than the private accumulate of housing - For instance, you can steal food or dumpster dive/salvage perfectly edible food from supermarkets a lot easier than you can squat in a house, so I don't tend to rail against the commodification of food as much as I otherwise would -

So basically, a proposal that runs counter to market-based capitalist imperatives receives two responses where I "surely can not be serious" - - Market-based capitalist imperatives, I think, under current conditions, are very much anti-thetical to social justice.

I am not so naive as to think there is any possible way to see a reorganisation of our economic and social structures to one that I would consider equitable, because there are too many vested elite interests in maintaining the current status quo, who invariably have on their side the monopoly of the use of violence (Police) - But I like to question ingrained assumptions that our culture holds and to challenge people's implicit beliefs, hence my couple of posts ITT.

Look I'm all for challenging fundamental beliefs of society, but I just don't understand what you're saying.

Currency is just a medium of exchange. It is a far more efficient method of trade than the alternative, "I will give you 200 apples if you build me a table". So in this case of a house, you work and get paid, then you use this money to pay for your accommodation.

In any level of fair and equitable society, to have someone build for you a house would require you to give them something in exchange. In this case, whatever you produce in your job can be seen as the item traded for the building of your house.

Now while you may think the cost of the house is over priced (eg 6 years of full time labour to par for it), that is a different issue to not having to pay for it altogether.

 

[radiojake]

Now while you may think the cost of the house is over priced (eg 6 years of full time labour to par for it), that is a different issue to not having to pay for it altogether.

never said houses should be free -

I just said people shouldn't be able to own multiple properties and make money from rent -

 

[richmonds]

never said houses should be free -

I just said people shouldn't be able to own multiple properties and make money from rent -

are you serious, poeple who have saved and worked hard to get ahead and buy a few homes shouldnt get rent, **** that, nothing in life is for free, get out there a bust a gut to get some money to pay your way, no one should get a free ride

 

[radiojake]

are you serious, poeple who have saved and worked hard to get ahead and buy a few homes shouldnt get rent, **** that, nothing in life is for free, get out there a bust a gut to get some money to pay your way, no one should get a free ride

man - did you even read anything I wrote? -

Where did I say anything should be free? Can you quote that part for me?

 

[richmonds]

man - did you even read anything I wrote? -

Where did I say anything should be free? Can you quote that part for me?

sorry , i mighnt have read it correctly