GhostFence @ GhostFence @lemmy.world

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"But muh nationalization socialism! Next thing you know we'll all be in gulags!" - some trailer park right wing rube reading this right now.

I think this is presuming a heavily overengineered model that fixates on things other than “How high can I raise your rent right now?” So long as eviction laws are loose enough, there are plenty of landlords who will find ways to make money by simply withholding your deposits and evicting you on short notice. What’s more, there’s been a growing trend of predator application processes, wherein landlords charge a vig to even consider you for their residence and make money keeping spots open indefinitely as bait.

Oh yeah there is definitely that, too.

If we want to get really sci-fi horror, I more see a future in which landlords find a way of sticking tenants with fees and collections long after that person has left the unit. Also, the increased slum-ification of existing housing, as big corporate landlords cut further and further back on maintenance.

Not sure I see a path to fees and collections after a person has left their rental, but I 150% believe that they can and will do their best to find a way.

“Living in the pods” is the real sci-fi nightmare. Paying thousands a month to effectively lease a bunk in a contract that affords a landlord direct access to all your incomes and assets indefinitely. That’s the horror story I’m more worried about than anything.

I do absolutely agree with the right-now horror stories that you're bringing up. Those are already in our face. Particularly the 200 sq ft apartment. In Hong Kong they have workers living/renting in literal rabbit hutches.

Still, I believe the Dark Mirror-style social credit score will come into existence. They've already tried it in America, it was called "Peeple" and it failed. For now. Meanwhile, across the Pacific:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/01/21/chinese-social-credit-score-utopian-big-data-bliss-or-black-mirror-on-steroids/#:~:text=If%20an%20individual%20has%20a,tickets%20or%20renting%20an%20apartment.

If an individual has a lower social credit score, they might find their ability to purchase what they want such as high-quality goods or a new home to be restricted. They might also be prohibited from buying airline and train tickets or renting an apartment. Some people with low social credit scores can expect to be blocked from dating sites and not be able to enroll their children in a school of their choice.

A social credit score affecting your ability to rent an apartment. This is the nightmare I described. It's happening right now at this moment in China.

We can't ever say "that can't happen here" when it's already happening elsewhere. We have to be vigilant. What's going on in China is a Beta rollout. When it gets here it'll be smoothed out and optimized for maximum suffering.

Impossible to know, but there are 16 million unoccupied homes as of march 2023.

https://unitedwaynca.org/blog/vacant-homes-vs-homelessness-by-city/#:~:text=Sixteen%20million%20homes%20currently%20sit,thousands%20of%20Americans%20face%20homelessness.

Deport them. IDGAF about the consequences.

Yes but look at the alternative: a country united under far right rule. We suffered for 4 years of that and are looking at another 4 years of it if the dumbass anti-Biden memes are taken seriously by enough sheeple.

Stop being poor, dang it!

20 minutes into the future: "Poverty comes from poor character".

Also look up "prosperity gospel". Clive Barker has nothing on that.

True but don't try Tinder dating with an Android phone, lol. Apple products get you dates!

https://www.garnerstyle.com/2023/07/tech-wars-why-some-women-think-android.html

We're never going to shut up about Apple. Ever. Anyone who doesn't like it is free to not read it!

Corporations are people!

UMSDOS?

I foresee all video games being strictly online in 10-20 years. No more single player content. That, right before the gaming industry implodes like an event horizon.

You order online for delivery to avoid COVID only to catch a computer virus from an ad. I used to watch my relatives browse to a news page and IMMEDIATELY get hit with a "MICROSOFT ERROR CALL xxx-xxx-xxxx TO FIX IT". Then I put ublock origin on their PC aaaaaaand good game ads!

Zoning is irrelevant. Perfect zoning laws could mean 10x the houses - and the investors will buy them all up and supercharge property prices all over again.

De-regulation in general has been an unmitigated disaster.

Meanwhile COVID loves extroverts!

Running out of 3rd spaces? LOL you only see those in museums now. See the smilodon exhibit next to the woolly mammoth exhibit and next to that is the American 3rd Space exhibit!

Cheap labor Conservatives destroyed protectionism. Part of why we're in this giant economic mess is because offshoring wiped our middle class off the map like the Chixclub meteor.

That's going to break down when Starbucks in San Francisco/etc. can't find workers because the cost to drive 20 miles to work is greater than what they're being paid. That day when low-paying big city jobs disappear because no one can afford to get there and work there is coming very fast.

That's a lot of words to say "Cartel". Car...tel... get it?

I'm here all day, folks! 👍

Here’s a hint: the automakers are doing great. By essentially coordinating an industry-wide production cut, the pandemic gave manufacturers power to demand mind-boggling prices for fewer cars, leading to record profits. As consumers adjusted their expectations, executives saw an opportunity to establish a lucrative new normal. Low inventory is an “opportunity to drive strong margins”, GM’s CEO, Mary Barra, told shareholders in 2022. Ford’s CEO, Jim Farley, went even further, declaring: “I want to make it extremely clear to everyone: we are going to run our business with a lower day supply than we have had in the recent past because that’s good for our company.”

Also see: collusion... market manipulation... fauxflation.

That truth will be buried. Israel will go full-scream about the Hamas attack long after the last Palestinian has starved to death. America won't intervene - after all look what they did to the Native Americans.