Actually we’re using it quite the same as I wasn’t referring to price either.

Additionally the meme is disingenuous. Meant to appeal to emotion. What Elmo and Zoe are conveniently ignoring is that the party who is being provided with housing is the tenant.

Nor does investing in silver, or day trading, or charging interest, or option calls. yet this is how capitalism works. We do not live in a society where value is limited to tangible goods produced.

the most capitalistic thing someone can do: you use your money to get someone else to pay [you]. You [lower your overheads as much as] you can get away with, and when you actually [maintain or improve your assets], your [customers] get a [cost increase].

Your argument is more aligned to capitalism in general rather than something particular to landlording. Your argument is applicable to leased vehicles and other businesses as well. Your argument incorrectly rests on an assumption that landlords simply raise rent high enough to cover all their overheads, but like any other business, landlords are beholden to market rates. If the rent is too high, then you have a smaller pool of potential tenants and it’s less likely they will be long-term tenants. Also, if a landlord has mortgaged a house to rent out, it’s unlikely that the rent he can collect would come near to covering the sum of the mortgage, the rental-insurance costs, the property taxes, maintenance, and other services. Property taxes alone can be several month’s rent. Whenever someone assumes that mortgaged landlords are skating on rental income, I assume that someone doesn’t know the true costs of owning a house.

What’s really happening for mortgaged landlords is that they are using your rent to build equity in their investment faster than they could otherwise.

The prevalent anti-landlord sentiment seems mostly to stem from bad experiences, rising rental costs, and the notion that landlords are somehow “getting something for nothing”. Only the first two points are fair grievances. If you’re going to take it further and propose that the owner of an asset (real estate or otherwise) cannot hire their property out, then you are striking at Capitalism itself. If you then nuance your argument by proposing that housing is a special case, and that housing rentals should not be a thing because we all need houses, then you’re obliged to consider other businesses as well. One might consider owning a vehicle essential to life; should we do away with car rentals? After all, you’re paying Hertz’s overheads. Groceries? We all need to eat right?

Rent seeking does create value: it provides a place to live. That is tangible value. There is no “one time labor” in this equation. The landlord continually pays taxes, insurance, maintenance, and other regular outgoings regardless of whether he bought the house outright or not.

Imho sideberry looks rather clunky and shoehorned. Fonts dont even match the rest of firefox’s gui. Cant use it after experiencing Vivaldi.

I appreciate you sharing your own experience but it’s possible the odor could be a new and heretofore unsmelled variant.

You sure it isn’t your crotch you’re smelling?

Maga worshippers tend to be the exact opposite of decent human beings.

Floorp is made by 3 guys in a basement. Dont count on it being around.

Nicotine is 7 times more addictive than heroin.

Can you make immich so that when you click on the map, you get a grid of relevant photos rather than full size swipe?

Can you make immich not show the stupid white lines around every country?

Sideberry is pathetically ugly. They couldn’t even be arsed to use the same font as the rest of the UX. The hierarchy is poorly shown too.

The masterclass in side tabs and tab grouping is with Vivaldi, and, sad to say it but Safari too.

When you combine Vivaldi with the TabRetitle extension, it is unbeatable.

Make a decent tab grouping feature

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I add the Utani add on

You sound like someone with green bubbles.

Your attitude towards OS is like what you enjoy about car ownership: Linux: you enjoy building cars and maintaining them. Windows: you prefer to spend your time under the hood working on difficult problems. Mac: you just want to drive.

The lesson to be learned here is that Lemmy mods are fickle, unpredictable and prejudiced just like Reddit mods. It’s a rare mod that can moderate objectively and consistently. In a way, mods tend to moderate their own values above and beyond the community’s needs. Lemmy.ml mods have a strong reputation for being skunks. Take that time you are putting into meme making and spin up an instance. Call it LemmyMemeWorld. Then post to your hearts content.