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True, but we’re not talking about clear and up front rules

I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I am stupid enough to occasionally get close to falling for a scam. Rather than test my luck, I’d rather they didn’t exist.

Pick something and change it when inspiration strikes. Sometimes you need a big picture view of something to get the right abstractions or even just name things.

Indentation implies there’s some control structure causing it. Too many control structures nested gets hard to mentally keep track of. 3 is arbitrary, but in general more indentation => harder to understand, which is bad.

If your government is controlled by neoliberal capitalists, that is what might happen yes, and that is why we should do as much as we can to get a government that actually acts in the interest of the people.

Government isn’t inherently bad at doing things, you’ve just been conditioned to think that by this system that forces the government to self-sabotage. Of course, the self-sabotage only applies to social programs, they’re actually very good and efficient at subsidizing and lowering taxes for the wealthy, for instance.

You’re thinking within the confines of the capitalist market, but why limit yourself? We can have systems where you can easily switch homes with people, or keep rent but keep it reasonable and without the huge extractive element, or so many other potential systems.

The problems you mention are problems created by capitalism, we have the power to fix them by playing by different rules, because the rules are made up.

I literally said the word in my reply. Also, you seem to have completely missed the point: we can have them charge rent, or provide it for free, or rent but subsidized, or any other scheme because it’s detached from market logic. It’s not about the word “landlord”, it’s about the effects of actions. Call it whatever you want, I don’t care.

And admin roles really don’t need a wage equivalent to mortgage payments and ownership of the properties they administer, so your comparison is dishonest. I’d prefer you spent your thinking on reason rather than formulating your troll response.

The capitalist system really limits the kinds of things people can imagine. We’re not confined to regulating the market from the outside, the government can be the “landlord” without the profit incentive.

IEEE-754

I do so much work for future me, knowing I won’t see it. Er, until I do. Time’s weird. I want to change who I am so badly, but it’s an eternity away.

:P

I started HRT recently and it feels life changing.

Depression and gender dysphoria. It’s not very dramatic nor fast-acting, it just ate away at me for a decade until I was sure I wasn’t gonna survive the next few years.

The fear of death doesn’t go away, it just starts to seem like the least terrible option. And it’s one thing when you get those impulses to do it, but it’s even scarier when you feel calm and levelheaded and still feel you should do it.