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  • All of you are missing the point. The middle class holds all the power.

    It’s out fault the world is the way it is. We let corporations dictate how much things should cost instead of not paying them what they want.

    Cars are expensive because people go to the dealer and say “I’ll take what you got for whatever you want me to pay” instead of “I’ll give you 10k for that f150 take it or leave it.”

    Instead people are going out of there way to secure a fucking 100k Tesla with whatever funding they got.

    Same with rent. We made the market like this because those snazzy new mixed use developments are so chic. Let me give my left testical to bid on one of those condos as long as I get to tell people I live at the Avalon/halcyon/bridgeford or whatever.

    We need to dictate how much we’re going to pay for shit not the other way around. Blaming people that take advantage of the system we allow to exist is the same as barking at the moon.


  • Oh, please. Get off your intellectual high horse. Your ability to string coherent words together doesn’t mean you actually know anything. All you’ve done is throw out a false equivalency and some hyperbole. I present arguments, and you respond with pseudo-intellectual gibberish. The people who take you seriously are the same ones who fart into wine glasses, idiots. I’m so tired of you hipster fucks on Lemmy. You talk about things you don’t understand and convince yourselves you’re enlightened. You’re just short-sighted trash wrapped in $100 words and YouTube rhetoric.




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    Charging for housing isn’t immoral just because it’s a necessity. By that logic, grocery stores are immoral for charging for food, and doctors are immoral for charging for healthcare. Property ownership and rental markets exist because providing and maintaining housing costs money. If your argument is that the system should be reformed, fine, let’s talk solutions. But calling all landlords inherently immoral is just lazy thinking.

    Also your comment on slavery is offensive which I believe is the only reason you added it which makes you sound even more stupid.


  • I don’t understand. What exactly is the complaint here? That they’re over charging or charging at all?

    Or is this just bandwagon hate on a common and ancient business practice?

    Because there is nothing immoral or unethical about having multiple rental property.

    And don’t give me this shit about how they’re evil for over charging. The middle class holds all the power all we’re lacking is organization and education.







  • Yeah, that’s the big issue with the prosecutorial system. District attorneys are incentivized to secure convictions, not to seek the truth.

    In fact, especially in criminal law, the truth is often completely irrelevant. The system is designed more to “make an example” out of people rather than simply ensuring the law functions as it should. It’s a flawed design and a pretty damning reflection of our society.


  • This comparison is flawed. Training AI on freely available data isn’t the same as pirating copyrighted material. Piracy means unauthorized access for personal use or distribution, while AI training processes text as input without reproducing or selling it directly.

    You can’t have a system where individuals expect free access to information but demand that corporations pay for the same data. If something is truly free, it should be free for everyone.

    No one expects an artist inspired by Michelangelo or Raphael to pay their estates for using their techniques or styles. Once knowledge and creativity enter the public domain, they become part of collective human progress.

    That said, I fully support what Aaron Swartz did—hell, I would’ve done it myself. But on the flip side, let’s not ignore that JSTOR was a subscription-based service, meaning he was literally stealing paywalled content. It’s not the same as AI training on publicly available data.

    And let’s be real—the three platforms mentioned exist in a legal gray area. It’s hypocritical to say individuals can use them freely, but corporations can’t. These sites exist solely to make information accessible to everyone, and you can’t pick and choose who gets to benefit.