difference between a hotel and a home. They are prima facie not the same thing
Hey, not so fast. It's easy to say that glibly, but the lines get kinda blurry when you consider long-term hotel stays and short-term rentals. What's really the key difference between the apartment and the hotel when you're staying at the former for a week at a time or the latter for a 3-month stint?
I'm not saying the Venn diagram is a circle, mind you, just that there's definitely some overlap.
What about condos? Is there something that prevents converting all apartment buildings and having owner-occupants instead of tenants?
As noted above, this isn't completely true. You can also buy stocks for dividends.
I'm just speculating that someone else will want to buy
No, not entirely. Lots of companies pay dividends. Buy stock in those, and you're speculating that they'll continue to be profitable enough to pay dividends.
don't have the time and skills
I'm not sure I can agree on this point, either. The time, maybe. The skill? If you're skilled enough to use Lemmy, you're skilled enough to set up a brokerage account and click "buy" on whichever companies meet your criteria. It's not actually any more complicated than online banking IMO.
Four legs good,
Two legs better!
Ah, that makes sense.
Thanks for clarifying!
Magazines?
We can't even keep knives out of prisons. How tf are we supposed to keep kids off the Internet?
I'm lucky in this respect. We keep the bins right by the alley, so I basically never have to move them.
Shal'kek nem'ron!
willfully ignore them next time(s).
That's a mood.
Eh, fair. Still, I was curious what you'd say about some of those edge cases.
Well, that's the problem, isn't it? Housing isn't working right now for way too many people. :(
Personally, I have very different opinions on "in an ideal world, here's a sketch of how humane housing might look" and "in today's dystopian hellscape, these are the worst of the worst"