I can’t help but think from a scientific perspective that when a population is forced to fight for resources, aggression in that population also increases.
In the most basic terms, how would you expect a colony of mice to react in a scenario like this? A dwindling supply of food, along with a shrinking supply of shelter… I’d expect to see a steady increase in violence over time.
I can’t see this ending well, and I certainly have felt a steady degradation of hospitality and compassion in the last decade or so.
Is there even a way to combat this? I feel like the cultural zeitgeist has been so polluted with individualism it’s almost impossible to get the general public to agree to policies that don’t directly benefit themselves.
I can’t see this ending well, and I certainly have felt a steady degradation of hospitality and compassion in the last decade or so.
After the Reddit API fiasco, but before I made this account, I spent a year avoiding all social media. Since coming back, things aren’t the same. There seems to be a lot more hostility, with a lot less reading comprehension, turning into feedback loops of inane and pointless arguing. It’s hard to hold an enjoyable discussion on a forum (like the way it used to be) when all it takes to start a fight is something as normal and human as being unable to find the exact right word for something.
It’s not only Lemmy. Spend enough time reading comment threads almost anywhere online these days, and you can practically feel the undercurrent of tension. To the best I can tell, people are stressed, people are scared, and people are looking for any excuse to lash out. Any minor confusion, brain fart, or mistranslation is now an excuse for someone to break out their pitchfork. It doesn’t even take a mistake either - even calm, well thought-out, carefully worded comments aren’t immune. It almost feels like landmines have been planted across social media, and it’s concerning.
Just build more houses and more multi-use buildings. Proper planning can solve this.
shout out to !fuckcars@lemmy.world
Don’t we also need some regulation that prevents landlords from buying any new housing capacity that is created?
IMO there should be no landlords, housing can be rented from the government or purchased outright. Private landlords do it for profit, but government housing can be nice and affordable because the goal doesn’t have to be profit, and the rent it does extract funds building new housing and maintenance.
Building denser to limit sprawl also greatly helps fire resiliency in fire prone areas. Sprawl greatly increases the perimeter that must be defended
It’s Luigi time
In a capitalist society, raising prices on victims due to supply and demand is rational behavior.
The problem here is less with the landlord and more with the system we live in. It motivates everyone to have antisocial behavior.
It would take exceptional circumstances to excuse this. I would say we don’t have enough information not to hate this player.
I agree that the system we live in is partially responsible, but it has never motivated me to be a piece of shit. People are still responsible for their actions.
We don’t know what situation the landlord is in. Maybe they are also turbo fucked. The human instinct to survive is strong.
If someone pinches me in the face, I guess I can safely assume you will be okay with me punching you.
It’s the same logic, and it’s fucking disgusting.
Completely agree.
The landlord is a piece of shit.
The system that drives people to act like pieces of shit is a bigger piece of shit.
And I definitely think the landlord can both be acting rationally and be a piece of shit. I also don’t place all the blame on the landlord, and even though anyone with a 10k plus apartment for rent has WAY more money than me they and I are likely in basically the same boat when compared to the actual capitalist class.
To be fair, if they’re renting to the people with movie star-level money, then I’m not sure I can blame them.
I’d have a sliding scale based on imdb credits.
Wow I’m quite surprised the fires haven’t affected that unit in particular
Sometimes fires like this flare up much later and in the weirdest places. Hopefully when noone is home.
They can, but no. Lots of single family homes burn to the ground with very minor damage to their neighbours (unless attached. Even then its smoke damage)
So if you need me to qualify my wishful thinking that a shit bag landlord would lose their rental home to a fire, thus fulfilling the karma due to them for overcharging after a terrible fire:
“I hope their house burns down in a safe and contained manner, not during any other heavy wind or nearby fires, while noone is home, and the fire fighters have had time off and are happy to be back on the job, but sadly didn’t get there before everything was completely ruined.”
“Also their insurance doesn’t cover fire.”
Hope that helps.