that fact that we more empty homes degrading from abandonment into nothingness in this country than homeless people is surest sign that we have terrible system.
In my building, half the units are just sitting here empty. Guess what country the owner is from?
Doesn't really matter what country the owner is from. What matters is that the country that contains the houses allows houses to be bought and sold purely for investment. Focusing on who is buying and selling them is barking up the wrong tree. If it wasn't them it would be someone else, because it's the system that's the problem. Go be racist somewhere else. Or just don't be racist at all.
You’re half right. It shouldn’t be allowed to happen at all. Personally I think, one person, one house—that’s it. Corporations can’t own SFH. Taxed on empty units, taxed on high rates.
yup tax on empty units in general would help a lot including rent prices, if you want to not pay the extra tax, better lower your rent to a point people can afford. So the tax needs to be high enough for this decision to be made.
i'm happy to see the empty apartments where i live; it means that it helps drive down the cost of rent and it's working, somewhat.
I’m guessing they’re empty because they can’t be rented, and not because they aren’t for rent.
it's partially because there's no one to rent it. the locals tell me that it's trending towards the same patterns that i've experienced in other cities; but it still affordable compared to the cities i've lived in texas, new jersey and georgia and despite it being the 3rd largest city in the country and COMPLETELY outclassing those other cities in terms of quality of life and public services. (for now).
People sleeping in front of buildings and socialized housing lower property value, I bet if we filled the walls with homeless people it would raise it
People sleeping in front of buildings and socialized housing lower property value, I bet if we filled the walls with homeless people it would raise it
Where have I heard this before.....
Show
Is attack on titan about justifying extermination of the homeless? Never watched the show, only saw bits and pieces,.
That's just the vibe I got from it.
Like the giants are basically zombies / animals / vermin and it's ok, even good, to attack and kill them whenever, no further provocation needed. They can't be reasoned with, they're not humans, they have negative value, it's evil not to kill them even.
Property speculation crashed. It wasn't a homelessness crisis, but an intentional popping of a speculative bubble because Capitalists got greedy and homes were too expensive.
So China tried the same formula as the west than, let the capitalists steer the housing market?
It seems they overbuilt on purpose, which seems like a great idea if you care more about shelter for the population than the financial wellbeing of the speculators.
Is there any data on homelessness in China? There's entire cities built and standing empty so I suppose there could potentially be zero homeless people, but if they were built by capitalists than I suppose it wouldn't be surprising if it followed the same pattern as in the west, with empty homes for people can't afford?
Not really, the government wound down the real estate market intentionally to refocus the economy on tech and industry.
They acted to prevent an issue from developing. This is the whole purpose of having a government. It pays attention to what's happening in the country overall, and guides the economy towards positive outcomes.
Im not sure we should be listening to this guy of all people, but i cosign the message still
-Weaponizing tiktok to try and make his own people more educated and the rest of everyone stupid -Putting stupid laws disabling teens from playing videogames more than like a couple hrs a week -The whole thing where any chinese owned company has to report to ccp and lie if ever investigated -Didnt he call Islam a mental disease and put muslims in concentration camps? I agree with the first part but locking ppl up and torturing them is crazy -You know, the whole great firewall of china where you cant watch content from huge paltforms like youtube, arent religious books like quran and bible banned too? Imagine a world leader being so insecure you gotta ban a teddy bear cus you look like him😭
I could probably think of a bunch more or look some up, trust me, this guy aint it.
Religious books are not banned. There are millions of christians in China. There are millions of Muslims in China. Reducing hours of video game playing could greatly assist with insane amount of hours that come with game addiction. It probably needs workshopped more but I personally think this change in coordination with providing youth with solid after school programs and activities would be good for long-term health and well being. That TikTok thing is BS. People in China watch just as much brainrot on douyin. Winnie the Pooh is beloved by people in China. Literally go around for five minutes and you'll see his face plastered on shirts bags and as stuffed animals. As for the companies, this is good if true. Fuck companies doing whatever they want and hurting people. I hope they continue to have significant government oversight.
Xinjiang is a more complex situation but if you look into it all accusations of genocide come from one source, Adrian Zens. He's a CIA asset who claims god revealed to him that it's his mission to destroy China. I'm gonna listen to the Muslim countries (and the UN) that came and inspected the region and said nah it's chill.
Have you ever talked to someone from there? I have and just asking them about this shit is really useful for learning that 80 percent of this stuff is untrue, and 20 percent is misconstrued.
That's the thing, if a lie is a big as the ones you present here, everyone would know. Yet here we are and the average person from china will complain about a lot of things but never the things you brought up here.
Being obligated to send user information to any government while lying about it when investigated is objectively bad bruh what are u talking about😭 also the gaming hours thing is just plain dystopian activity... can chinese people connect to youtube, fcebook, reddit etc? + can they openly criticize the establishment and discuss controversial topics like tiananmen square, tankman?. How legal are vpns and other privacy tools? Cant really complain about the government when any and all complaints can put you in danger.
Look man I'm not gonna respond to anymore of this stuff. I just want to point out that most of what you said the first time is untrue and then you just double down and list a bunch of other things as truisms.
Be a little critical of narratives about places you know nothing about yeah?
Least obvious psyop.. having winniexinping tell u u cant play games after your designated bedtime is crazy..
This advice of yours goes both ways yeah?
Go read up on videogame addiction. Reduces grey matter in the brain. Having socially isolated kids who only play games alone is damaging. Having kids touch grass in order to help avoid that is good.
"Least obvious psyop" after spewing straight up BS. Okay lol
I'm done goodbye
can they openly criticize the establishment and discuss controversial topics like tiananmen square, tankman?
have you ever seen the full tank guy footage? here it is, if you're curious: https://youtu.be/qq8zFLIftGk the man is able to stop in the street, climb on the tank, talk to the operator, and walks away completely unharmed
compare this to NYPD officers, who simply run protesters over: https://youtu.be/q-W-7WPWfE4
The Great Firewall serves as a protectionist policy to encourage Chinese citizens to use China's own platforms to help build China's technological sovereignty while also filtering out a lot of reactionary crap. The Chinese people use VPNs to access YouTube and such all the time. I recommend watching Ben Norton's video on his experience living in China as he does talk about the Great Firewall and its purpose.
trust me, this guy aint it.
Since what you said was either completely unture or not a bad thing, no I'm not going to trust you. You might want to do some investigation before speaking
