• Honytawk@feddit.nl
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    7 小时前

    They could, you know, actually do work for once?

    Like improve society, instead of being a parasite?

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      4 小时前

      They do… they run a small grocery store that actually has whole foods with fresh fruits and vegetables and modestly priced meats that isn’t horribly expensive and maintain the most affordable apartments in the entire city.

      Right downtown.

      In what is now an overpriced retirement ghetto filled with million dollar starter homes owned by insufferably stuffed old shirts and 3.5k per month apartments rented to Boston commuters.

      They work their asses off to build an actual community of native residents.

      Pretty much everyone they rent to has local resident ties here to what used to be a working class, working port city.

      Your cynicism is noted, but you make some incorrect assumptions. It’s not ALL as bad as you think out there. Find those gems, they do exist.

    • Crash@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 小时前

      I mean, I rent the upstairs of my house, and I work and my fiance works. I raise the rent when I have to and don’t when I don’t. I’ve found that regardless of how good I try to be to my tenant, there will always be people that call me a leech.

      I wanted a house. I bought a house. A big one, for a really good price. I’ve put work into it, building it’s value. As stated, I work to pay bills, as well. But, the extra money from my extra resources (livable, maintained space with working amenities), is earned and I do work for it.

      That said, it would, also, be silly to think that I would let a stranger live in the house that I am working to pay for, for free.