dont you think its weird. dont you think its weird that the space race last time was two of the biggest powers in the world. and now its a handful of rich men. dont you think its weird they can afford that. dont you think its bad that rich men can afford the same things as the government.
dont you think its weird that while the world is suffering and poverty is everywhere, where there's wars and climate change and human pain and homelessness. the same month I've watched people die on the news from unbearable heat and unprecedented flooding. that a rich handful of men are going to space, causing more carbon emissions. dont you think its weird that instead of putting their vast amount of money to use for good they're using it to find a way off the planet theyre destroying.
My husband’s job primarily employs adult men but there is one (1) teenage girl and my husband said originally he worried she might be a bit of an outcast but instead every man on the crew was like “huh guess I am a dad/older brother now.”
She was in a car crash on the way to work one morning and called my husband to let him know she’d be late and he was like wtf guess I’m gonna be late too because I’m coming to pick you up and then he told his team and they were like I think you mean WE are coming.
Imagine you are a teenage girl probably rushing to get to work and you crash your probably new car and feel absolutely miserable and now you’ll be late to work but then suddenly in the distance a car full of all the adult men you work with just pulls up and is like “we came all the way here to pick you up” the mental image right now is fr.
Apparently she tried to call her dad but it was 3am and he was obviously sleeping so she called my husband and he not only came to find her but fished her glasses out of the hood of the car (she’d dropped them while looking inside), drove her to the hospital, and told her to take the day off. She insisted on coming back to work so he used his lunch break to watch TV with her to make sure she didn’t doze off (concussion risk).
You’ve heard of the Mom friend but my husband is very much the Dad friend. He said when he answered the phone she said “hey please don’t be mad” and he’s never felt such powerful Fatherhood energy in his life.
I can’t speak for people in urban settings but in rural areas landlords are your neighbors as well as your handyman. They see you outside when they go by and make sure to honk and wave, they know the names of your whole family and actually care about you. So before demonizing everyone who has a specific title please take into account they’re not all the same.
and they still throw you out on the street the moment you can't pay rent just like anywhere else. landlords are not and never will be your friends. I grew up in the country buddy don't come at me with this hokey small town bullshit, rural landlords are no different
Everyone on this website is so disgusting and ignorant.
If you actually read the CNN article, you’ll see how landlords running out of money is also negatively affecting tenants, as it’s hurting their ability to maintain properties and provide housing generally.
The system is in need of major reform but needlessly villainizing all landlords/housing providers in the short term is not going to do anything to help the massive housing shortage that exists in the U.S.
Also keep in mind that a not insignificant percentage of landlords are nonprofits and providers of affordable and subsidized housing. If they’re suffering, their ability to provide affordable housing suffers as well.
In urban centers, podunk towns, and everywhere in between they actively snatch up otherwise affordable real estate in order to maintain a stranglehold on renters through inflation and artificial scarcity.
When there is demand to live in an area, the market should naturally respond by increasing the supply of housing.
Landlords and rental associations actively lobby against affordable housing and renting control initiatives.
In California and across the country, landlord groups are waging a disinformation campaign to squash efforts to make rent more affordable.
Landlords do not contribute to the economy or the communities they hold property in, they actively parisitize them.
They garner income through the simple act of owning a building, and writ large, will fight tenants tooth and nail to wriggle out of responsibility for maintenance and repairs on the properties they hold, because those responsibilities cut into their bottom line.
And when we get into the further egregious mess of corporate landlords and property holders, they aren't even incentivized to prevent evictions to ensure a stable rental income, because recent bailout measures have resulted in lucrative schemes for corp. landlords through which they make MORE money by evicting tenants, getting insurance bailouts, and generating high eviction rates/ tenant turnover to generate as much as possible in quarterly profits
If you're looking for a home to rent there's an increasing chance it's going to be owned by a large corporation. A new report shows that 15%
Landlords at all levels, from your corporate grave tillers to your "neighborly small-town" property renters are parasites who extract wealth from their tenants as a further reward for owning properties.
Landlords are not your friends, and about this at least, Mao was right.
Woke up at 3 am delirious and extremely thirsty but my water glass was empty so I was like “I know exactly how to fix this” So I googled “big water” and in my half asleep state I was certain that would allow me to manifest a large glass of water in reality. Didn’t work but now I know there’s a town in Utah called Big Water.
