BEN CARSON: RAISE RENT ON THE POOR

People having to work more than 2 hours a day to pay for their own shit.

Except if there are no jobs hiring them that pay better, they'll need to rely more on welfare. After increasing their rent to this degree, pretty much any risk they take to better themselves will rely on aid. The alternative is a enabling this to be a program which encourages starvation (and potentially homelessness) - which is a completely retarded option, considering the US literally has piles of grain rotting in silos because we produce more than farmers want to sell.

Creating need and poverty is a consistently poor approach to incentives and stimulus. In this case, not only does it do nothing to improve the quality of jobs available, its "success" essentially hinges on forcing the desperate to further oversaturate the pool of workers. If it "works" it will artificially decrease demand for work and potentially decrease pay as well, rendering the only static thing whatever government benefits they're eligible for. Success means increasing reliance, here, which makes it a shitty plan.

If they're working 2 hours a day, it's most likely because of a dire jobs situation in which only minimal part-time stuff is available. In this scenario, the reform would put them >$400 in the red. Even if they worked full time at or just above minimum wage, it's cutting into their savings without offering an actual alternative. Meanwhile, housing prices don't stop inflating. If they were allowed to save more of that money, they would have more options.

The only reason why rent is even a thing is because home ownership is unaffordable for a lot of people.

Real estate is also a bad investment. With the money you waste on a down payment, there is tremendous opportunity cost there. You could have invested that money in the S&P 500, which is a more solid performer than real estate. And then you have to pay a mortgage and bills anyways. I just don't see how it is better than renting. Baby boomers have been brainwashed into seeing home ownership as an investment. That's why they buy houses and rent them out. Or rent out a room or a basement in a home.

Think about it, name one other investment that the average Joe makes where they go take out a huge amount of debt from a bank. Student loan debt doesn't come close to a mortgage. Real estate in the west is a fucking rip-off. I'm probably going to just rent for the rest of my life.

While you think the landlord is exploiting him, he's the one getting cuckolded by market forces when the housing price tanks. And he has to serve the debt on the mortgage. He has to pay the bills. He has to fix my shit the same day it breaks like a cuck. Apparently a lot of landlords actually lose money. And the only thing they are banking on is the hope that property values go up so that they make money on paper.

So is everyone else under capitalism
Not all of them, and they get away with handing over that responsibility to the tenant most of the time anyway
Lol, he can decide when to fix it whenever he wants unless the state tells the fucker to do it by set times.

And don't give me that bullshit on "muh freedumb to choose in a marget," you know damn well most people who rent don't have the money to act accordingly. If you do then that's the situation you (and a few others) find yourself in - not anyone else.

There are renters who are powerless. Particularly Section 8 Housing peeps. There are people like me however who voluntarily choose to rent because home ownership is a bad deal. If my landlord is a jackass, worst case scenario, I have to wait out a 1-2 year lease contract. I would try to negotiate an early termination of my lease if my landlord was an unbearable stingy lazy bastard. My current landlord (Dad) is pretty chill. I'm going to really shop around for a quality landlord though after I finally move out. I'm willing to pay more in rent for a reliable, dependable landlord. Maybe if some of my mom's friends are still alive I'll rent a basement or room from one of them since I know they'll be reliable. Home ownership in this market just doesn't make any fucking sense. The real estate bubble in my city recently burst. The kike bankers have been telling me as recently as last year that a mortgage is a wise investment and that the housing prices will continue to go up. I told them to fuck off. I'm glad I listened to my gut instinct.

I just wanted to correct your idealistic view of how renting works. I could care less about your decision to rent or to own property; in the long run, this form of ownership will cease to exist. As for the here and now, you should probably look into tenants' unions. Your situation might look good now, but unless you have a guaranteed job set aside for you through "networking" or nepotism this gig model won't pan out a few years or even months from now.

So petit-bourgeois. I have nothing against you, but it clearly affects your thinking.

Who gives a shit if it's morally right or wrong? We're against it for practical reasons. And no, mindless terrorism doesn't get anyone anywhere. You need to build some level of mass action if you wanna change anything

You need to stop arguing with people and start organizing with people. No one is going to take the call to arms of some random person they barely even know.

I dunno where you live user, but in the US I think they've started restricting the kind of books you can get, and you'd most likely end up doing hard labor for cents on an hour, while you live in a shit cell and eat shit food. If you join a prison gang maybe you might be able to get around some of those restrictions, but from what I hear, they're very ethnically organized.

I thought NDP was the leftist party in Canada. Why would you consider the Liberals at all. Doesn't matter in the end I guess, just like your vote.

The South is weird. It went from slave society to somewhat feudal society with sharecropping until farms got mechanized, and then it's also always had a large portion of military involvement.