Forwarded from Syndiegram (Nutalie Frost, Eekhoornmeisje)
https://twitter.com/pangmeli/status/1242141344438550529
landlords are the only investors I've encountered who expect their investment revenue to remain constant & level no matter what the market forces are
I don't get it. rental income is very simple and straightforward in terms of investment risk: you get a substantive cut of someone's employment income, so if their employment is hit, your investment is hit. yet here we have all these landlords with the shocked pikachu face
I think even moreso than being shocked by the prospect of tenants defaulting on rent, landlords are shocked by the prospect that if their tenants default on the rent, they could be morally or legally compelled to shelter them anyway. they're shocked by the backflow of entitlement
there's a real cognitive discrepancy in thinking tenants can and should somehow be compelled to cover your mortgage payments, irrespective of their material realities. like morality aside — surely you can see that the food chain only works if your prey are also fed?
I think this landlord (who is commenting unironically about a prospective rent strike) expresses the underlying crux of this mentality perfectly: landlords shouldn't be 'screwed equally'. if renters are screwed, it's only 'fair' if landlords somehow get to be less screwed.
[insert pic of text saying: I agree re people needing to have their basic needs met. And yes, I’m not here to argue either. It just needs to be fair, but not “let’s screw everyone equally”]
I realize I'm basically circling around @.nanpansky's observation — people can debate the morality of a rent strike all they want, but for many renters it isn't a choice, it's an outcome. if people can't make rent, the outcome is that they won't make rent.
[quote tweet by @.nanpansky saying: most people will not have any capacity to make any money for the next 2-6 months so the rent strike will just happen, it doesnt have to be like, organized or anything]
it feels insane to have to assert that people can't afford what they can't afford, but landlord logic is that while a landlord's "can't" (can't afford my mortgage without rental income) is immutable, a tenant's "can't" (can't afford rent without a job) can be willed into a "can"
if you're a landlord who needs rental income, you can keep repeating 'but you promised! but you owe me! but the bank!' as though it's an incantation that will give tenants their jobs back — or you can try to improve their material reality by agitating for universal basic income
to be clear, what landlords are really protesting isn't your potential inability to pay rent — it's their potential inability to evict you. landlords are indignant because they thought they'd get all the perks of investing in a vital resource and none of the moral imperatives
landlords are the only investors I've encountered who expect their investment revenue to remain constant & level no matter what the market forces are
I don't get it. rental income is very simple and straightforward in terms of investment risk: you get a substantive cut of someone's employment income, so if their employment is hit, your investment is hit. yet here we have all these landlords with the shocked pikachu face
I think even moreso than being shocked by the prospect of tenants defaulting on rent, landlords are shocked by the prospect that if their tenants default on the rent, they could be morally or legally compelled to shelter them anyway. they're shocked by the backflow of entitlement
there's a real cognitive discrepancy in thinking tenants can and should somehow be compelled to cover your mortgage payments, irrespective of their material realities. like morality aside — surely you can see that the food chain only works if your prey are also fed?
I think this landlord (who is commenting unironically about a prospective rent strike) expresses the underlying crux of this mentality perfectly: landlords shouldn't be 'screwed equally'. if renters are screwed, it's only 'fair' if landlords somehow get to be less screwed.
[insert pic of text saying: I agree re people needing to have their basic needs met. And yes, I’m not here to argue either. It just needs to be fair, but not “let’s screw everyone equally”]
I realize I'm basically circling around @.nanpansky's observation — people can debate the morality of a rent strike all they want, but for many renters it isn't a choice, it's an outcome. if people can't make rent, the outcome is that they won't make rent.
[quote tweet by @.nanpansky saying: most people will not have any capacity to make any money for the next 2-6 months so the rent strike will just happen, it doesnt have to be like, organized or anything]
it feels insane to have to assert that people can't afford what they can't afford, but landlord logic is that while a landlord's "can't" (can't afford my mortgage without rental income) is immutable, a tenant's "can't" (can't afford rent without a job) can be willed into a "can"
if you're a landlord who needs rental income, you can keep repeating 'but you promised! but you owe me! but the bank!' as though it's an incantation that will give tenants their jobs back — or you can try to improve their material reality by agitating for universal basic income
to be clear, what landlords are really protesting isn't your potential inability to pay rent — it's their potential inability to evict you. landlords are indignant because they thought they'd get all the perks of investing in a vital resource and none of the moral imperatives
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landlords are the only investors I've encountered who expect their investment revenue to remain constant & level no matter what the market forces are
https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6817711-Updated-House-Bill
So, in order to give you a crumb of your own money, here are the demands that the Dems are making after blocking the trumpbux bill, highlighting the biggest ticket items and most bizarre.
No voter ID to get a ballot, & anonymous “ballot harvesting” pg 650
$25M 'cleaning supplies' for one building page 136 🤔
$10K per person for student loan bailout
$20B to the USPS
$30B for the Department of Education stabilization fund
$3B upgrade to the IT department at the VA — I've worked for them, no amount of computers can help that bureaucratic clusterfuck
$25B for Transit Infrastructure pg 169
$1B to Amtrak
$1B to 'Airlines Recycle and Save Program' pg 163
$720M to SSA / but get this only 200M is to help people. The rest is for admin cost.
Many half and third billions greasing palms, leaving:
40B for worker relief, a Benjamin a person if they're efficient. Not even enough to counter the devalued currency.
DNC isn't your friend.
So, in order to give you a crumb of your own money, here are the demands that the Dems are making after blocking the trumpbux bill, highlighting the biggest ticket items and most bizarre.
No voter ID to get a ballot, & anonymous “ballot harvesting” pg 650
$25M 'cleaning supplies' for one building page 136 🤔
$10K per person for student loan bailout
$20B to the USPS
$30B for the Department of Education stabilization fund
$3B upgrade to the IT department at the VA — I've worked for them, no amount of computers can help that bureaucratic clusterfuck
$25B for Transit Infrastructure pg 169
$1B to Amtrak
$1B to 'Airlines Recycle and Save Program' pg 163
$720M to SSA / but get this only 200M is to help people. The rest is for admin cost.
Many half and third billions greasing palms, leaving:
40B for worker relief, a Benjamin a person if they're efficient. Not even enough to counter the devalued currency.
DNC isn't your friend.
@voregeoisie
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It's an amusing fact that the national guard typically uses a cable lock through a spoke on the wheel to secure vehicles, same vulnerability to bolt cutters as a bike lock. I doubt many of the criminal element know that the switch between the drivers door and steering wheel needs to be turned to an intermediate position, which turns on a light above it, while the glow plugs in the diesel engine warm up. After a few seconds the light goes off and you can flip it to start. I bet some crazy dorks are going to get busted for not knowing that bit of trivia. Probably somewhere where there was a prison break and the cops are staying home for anything short of a murder.