gusgalarnyk

You are forming your opinion on a statistical anomaly worth of experiences. The reality is rent is priced fixed by very few algorithms - all of which by their nature drive the prices higher every year.

You are renting to people who choose to rent, the vast majority don't get to choose. And even if they choose to rent, that's because owning is too expensive in their eyes (money or time or paperwork or otherwise) - it does not mean they wouldn't want to own if the cost was lower.

I can't imagine anyone declining reduced costs unless phrased poorly or out of guilt.

The Q.A. page specifies that you can specify what games are shared or shown using the normal means.

You no longer have to give up citizenship to be a German citizen, and the US doesn't require that either. A new law passed this year and comes into effect sometime around April I believe (still new to the exact legislation process in this country).

But yes, I would not encourage anyone to move to the US at this time. They are the largest proponent of late stage capitalism and those policies bring instability to the worker classes which begets authoritarianism. That's rarely a good thing for anyone.

My friend and I moved to Germany last year. We met some Americans from st. Louis who moved the year before.

It's anecdotal but not unreasonable to imagine some amount of brain drain is happening because of the instability in the US driven by late stage capitalism.

Add in an office for a publicly owned rail system.

I think the point is "profit" is wage theft by definition to some. The workers generate profit, meaning they make someone else money they earned from their labor, and regardless of the structures or systems they're a part of that make that profit possible they should be given that profit.

I think I agree that profit by default is wage theft but I can appreciate that if a system of capital and practices enable the profit past the individual workers wage that there should be some reward to that system. The problem is how that reward is distributed, which right now is poorly done in most places.

I think part of convenience is name brand recognition. I don't know how you took a heartfelt compliment and made it hostile, but the reality is I grew up knowing what Google was and using it as a verb. Gmail was an obvious and convenient tool to pickup.

I just found out about Protonmail, or at least heard of it for the first time that it broke the barrier of not-caring into carrying. I imagine user numbers reflect that pretty readily.

That's all I'm saying. I'm not saying Protonmail is worse in anyway, please don't assume I am. It's okay to like a product and admit it's flaws, in this case the only flaw I'm suggesting it has is being less known than Gmail and even then only for me and my small corner of the world.

Thank you for this recommendation, I'll look into switching. It's a slow process of moving towards less convenient but more private services but your comment has moved the needle for me at least.

Which is a silly conclusion... What's the point? The better question would be why isn't more housing being built? And I suspect the answer to that question is there is a vested interest in increasing that deficit.

Whenever someone starts to conclude that housing is so expensive purely because there aren't enough homes, they often follow that up with pointing to construction costs. Which to me screams deregulation and wage complaints, two things an improving society should not be encouraging.

Anything that is meant to be consumed should not be an investment, anything that in an ideal society should be cheaper to purchase for the betterment of that society, should not be an investment.

Companies that produce those things, ideally better or more efficient every year for various reasons, those should be investments.

We should invest in banana farmers, not bananas. Likewise we should invest in construction companies, not houses.

#atetheonion

I moved to Germany right when the D-ticket went into effect. I can't imagine a more complicated solution that also costs more money. I commute to work a city over, I travel to small towns all the time to visit and explore.

I want to stay in Germany long term, and I hope the country continues to value public transit. Cars are a plague. I'm not thoroughly versed in the German train history but public transit should be free for everyone, a public utility, and paid for via taxes.

Our list of priorities should be public transit, ecological and healthy personal options like bikes, and then electric cars. Removing the D-ticket would be a step backwards.