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LANDLORDS COWER IN FEAR OF MAOTRAIN
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This is the sort of shit you can only pull when a large number of refugees are desperately looking for housing in a state that refuses to accommodate them.
Nah, Poland has plenty of empty (dodgy quality) housing left abandoned since 1989.
This is just the thing Polish bourgeois like to do. The "everyone is trying to screw me over, so why shouldn't I do the same?" is very popular among the population.
Is this the dream of every Westerner to own property that they can rent out? I hear a lot of this from Americans and Canadians about how they want to get into real estate.
It's not just a westerner thing, look at China before Mao's reforms. Look at parts of South Africa now. Feudal economic conditions lead to this kind of rent seeking behaviour being taken to the extreme. It's why Adam Smith hated landlords so much, the whole point of capitalism, to those that actually belive in it, is that's it's a progression from feudalism. So this kind of extreme rent seeking behaviour should not be a part of capitalism, according to what I refer to as utopian and idealistic capitalists. However, in actually existing capitalism, neo feudal economic conditions are recreated over time as the rate of profit falls. Which leads to this kind of behaviour and landlord worship.
The Chinese landlords pre Mao were more feudal lords than people renting out residential properties
And the people renting out residential properties are becoming more and more feudal in their tactics as time passes. Like in this post about the guy subdividing his apartment in Poland, to take advantage of a refugee crisis with the war next door.
no I mean Mao's landlords were actual literal feudal lords with peasants, manors, castles and everything
Yes. I have a cousin who bought a place and is renting it out rather than living there because she can't actually afford the mortgage on her own salary. She's living with my aunt for free.
It's bad, folks. 
Some see it as a survival strategy for when they reach retirement age 
Jesus. You guys should live down here where the government can't reach us and we build our own houses with the community. Only downsides are very awful internet access and spotty electricity. That, and you need to grow and harvest your own food.
Tom Bombadil approved lifestyle
Is this the dream of every Westerner to own property that they can rent out?
That was 90% of the pull of Metaverse(tm) and NFT grifts, yeah.
The average person’s dream is to be able to exploit their neighbors. They won’t say it of course. But they’ll talk about wanting to own property to rent. When my family came here and was poor as hell, my dad considered buying two houses to rent the other.
Luckily my mom talked him out of it, but that’s because he was planning on doing all the maintenance work and answering calls lol. Wonder how it would’ve played out if they learned that you can be a lazy bum and outsource everything at your leisure and most people won’t be able to complain because housing would be scarce 10 years later.
Yep, I know a 22 year old who's current financial goals in life is looking for rental properties to buy within the next year in his cheap hometown so his parents can manage it
Some lib will defend this as environmentally friendly
give me like 20% more space and access to nice communal food and recreation areas and I'm game for sleeping in a little box tbh. But this isn't that.
i've lived like this and trust me you don't want this. the place becomes infested with bugs and mold and the fridge becomes unusuable because it's so full and you end up eating out way more which kills alot of the money you saved by living in a shithole.
Plus god forbit you don't wake up 2 hours before work and you have to choose between go to work smelling like shit or being 45 minutes late because there's a line to the shower
Therapist: Rimworld apartments aren't real
Of course not. Rimworld apartments have a communal common area that is as luxurious as the situation permits, and sometimes have enough room for a double bed.
At least the floor isn't just dirt and pools of insect blood like in my early bases... right?
He could double his revenue by installing bunk beds! He's leaving money on the table! Where's your Ligma Grindset, man?!
When you look at one of those awful Hong Kong cage apartments and think: "Yes."
This happens in South Africa too. Building in the city centre gets hijacked/stolen by these "landlords", that divide all the existing rooms using makeshift materials, and then charge rent for basically living inside a shack inside a stolen abandoned apartment building. Very dangerous, one of these buildings burnt down recently and a lot of people died.
For those that want an international source, CNN did some coverage on it
What an innovating and enterprising individual, bucking the trends of past inefficiencies to provide more efficient cost effective housing to people who need it most. This brave soul truly embodies the best of the Spirit of Capitalism, and the world is better for it!!
$53 per square meter per month... 
eye twitches
this is the future that yimbies want, god its just bleak to think about
A landlord from Poland divided ~~his apartment~~ into 25 ~~rooms of 6 square meters and rented them out for $320/month per room.~~
The fall of the Soviet Union and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
Poland stop being a garbage fire challenge. Difficulty level: not actually burning actual garbage at record levels that can be observed from space.
he doesn't have 25 necks 
Fire hazard vibes
Yeah I think nearly 100 people in Johannesburg died from a fire in an illegally divided apartment building. So many people so close together is unsafe.
Shit like this makes me think I should buy an unimproved plot of land and go full grover on it.
