Not all economists are capitalists or assholes. Many economists do propose such things. It's the government that doesn't implement them. Economists are real scientists, and shunning their work in such a blanket way is uncomfortably reminiscent of the kind of anti-science "I do my own research" thinking we see on the right. Economists disagree with each other on all sorts of things, because it's an evolving field, but that doesn't mean it deserves to be analogized to something like religion.
Idk dude this one time I met a girl and she told me she likes skydiving, I never met anyone that was into skydiving before, so I'm pretty sure girls really like skydiving
$500 seems offensively low for how bad this is. This is the second vulnerability I've seen from this guy where the company security seemed just unbelievably bad. Like it's basically non-existent.
You got me! I don't rent now, but I did rent on a sub-poverty income for about two years, and during that time I felt the same way as I do now. So you would have had the same exchange with past, renter-me, and then what? What difference would that have made to either of our arguments? It is a pointless avenue for you to pursue, since as I already pointed out and you conveniently did not refute, many renters share my view exactly as written. I know you don't intend it, but that line of argument is an ad hominem and does no good to your point.
I don't believe I threw renters under the bus, but I'm open to having my understanding corrected if you could elaborate on how I did so.
Where I live, houses that people can afford to buy are purchased by these entrepreneur grindset wannabe amateur landlords and then rented out at a higher price than the mortgage to the same people who would have bought the property otherwise (which must always be the case when you think about it, otherwise there's no profit). I understand not ALL landlords are this type of scum, but she is a landlord and she is this type of scum. Hence the epithet.
Also, consider being a bit more cautious about who you tell to "check their privilege", as I'm pretty clearly defending people with less money against people with more of it. For all you know, I'm a renter living below the poverty line. My opinion, exactly as I've expressed it, is shared by many people in that situation. Even if your argument was 100% correct in all situations, it's obvious that my heart was in the place of defending lesser privilege, even if I really was misunderstanding the economic implications of landlords not existing.
While I acknowledge my lazy reading of the article, I feel like this fact makes her even less justified to want to use it for her MIL. Now it just sounds like she should sell the property and use those proceeds to buy a place for the MIL.
"Ashmin Goolab says she wants Jonathan King and his wife out of their bungalow, so that her mother-in-law can eventually live there."
Sounds like you should have used that property as a dwelling rather than fuck up the housing market by converting into a rental for easy money. Get fucked landlord scum
Thank you so much for commenting this. It's so annoying to see both the original screenshot and so many exchanges in here either playing dumb or actually being dumb about WHY they see PBS as propaganda. As always, people are more interested in appearing to preach epic gotcha wins to their own choir, while totally sweeping the real meaning of their opponent's statement under the rug. It's not being nice and learning to read that the right takes issue with PBS over, it's race, gender, and sexuality issues. But rather than respond to them on that more difficult ground, the masses choose to go for pointless low hanging fruit like "lol so you hate kindness????", and then congratulate the OP for owning the right, meanwhile the right is totally unphased by that completely off-topic mark-missing response. And then we wonder why the right sees us as a bunch of circlejerky bubble-world morons.
Not all economists are capitalists or assholes. Many economists do propose such things. It's the government that doesn't implement them. Economists are real scientists, and shunning their work in such a blanket way is uncomfortably reminiscent of the kind of anti-science "I do my own research" thinking we see on the right. Economists disagree with each other on all sorts of things, because it's an evolving field, but that doesn't mean it deserves to be analogized to something like religion.