comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 2 hours, 42 minutes ago
Rentals are parasitic opportunism.
People can afford the £800 rent no problem, but the bank won't give them a £500 mortgage.
Dwellings are a human necessity, not an investment opportunity
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Can’t say I agree with some of that mate.
It’s not opportunism. It’s private property rights and a free market.
Banks I generally agree with, in recent decades they’ve gone from lending OTT to people that they shouldn’t lend to through to now not lending to enough people; one time they were making billions off mortgages and the other not so much…go figure….. even I’m not a fan of that at all. Mortgages should not be allowed to be bought up by IBs.
Shelter is a human necessity and luckily in countries like ours it is provided by the government/taxpayer but owning a property is not a right. We’re just not there yet as a society globally.
You shouldn't be allowed to buy to let. It's profiteering from people unable to get a mortgage, its exploitative charging silly rents to people who have no other choice, it's a way of keeping people in poverty and increasingly locking the lower classes out of asset inflation as a means of funding their retirement.
We aren't a free market society. We operate many sectors as protected monopolies (water, rail, etc), we top up poverty wages through working tax credits, and we have a corporate welfare budget of over £100bn.
Even the social housing sector isn't run as a free market, the government pays for their houses to be built via the HCA, with interest free depreciating loans equal to 95% of the cost of the build.
If *Anyone* wants to rent out a house, it should have to be managed by a social housing company, so that the house is kept at a decent standard, there is no discrimination about who can live in it, and it can be subject to all the laws those companies must follow, such as improving the EPC of the property.
Personally I prefer private property rights and much prefer the standards within the private sector.
Just because there are utility type companies with oligopolies or monopolies doesn’t mean we’re not in a free market society. In fact, we’re the seventh most free economies in the entire world.
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 5 hours, 36 minutes ago
Personally I prefer private property rights and much prefer the standards within the private sector.
Just because there are utility type companies with oligopolies or monopolies doesn’t mean we’re not in a free market society. In fact, we’re the seventh most free economies in the entire world.
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A free market society does not have a corporate welfare bill.
It's at complete odds to the principle.
Also the private sector does not deliver better standards, as I said, it's exploitative and keeps people entrenched in poverty, it's basically stolen two generations retirements as they are locked out of the asset inflation that "enriched" boomers.
Should be banned tbh.
Also, I'm not saying private ownership should be banned, I'm saying buying up second third fourth, tenth twentieth etc houses as buy to lets.
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 5 minutes ago
Also, I'm not saying private ownership should be banned, I'm saying buying up second third fourth, tenth twentieth etc houses as buy to lets.
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Yes you want to control and limit private property rights.
What about yachts? Excess cars? How about clothes? Food?
It’s a messy road to go down and always ends up with the same result.
Destroying property rights is not the way to deal with the problem that you wish to solve. It will create far worse problems.
I’ve mentioned this many times to JS when he talks about this: increase the length of time permitted in an AST to like 7 years that will slowly but surely slow down rent increases and will allow families to fix a price for a longer period of time.
As for corporate welfare:
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/a4dd4a88-d8db-3f97-aafb-305acf5998a5
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From Earth to Multiverse
https://youtu.be/q1mkjkTqg0Y
What a great video
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We should be looking at terraforming Venus
Interesting its size is so similar.
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 7 hours, 42 minutes ago
We should be looking at terraforming Venus
Interesting its size is so similar.
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Mate Venus is a hotter planet than mercury despite being further away from the Sun. this is due to its atmosphere.
Every week should be a 4 day week.
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 15 hours, 53 minutes ago
From Earth to Multiverse
https://youtu.be/q1mkjkTqg0Y
What a great video
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How small minded are those that think they are something when they manage to invade a territory or half the globe.
Will the rest of the universe sit up and take note - at all?
Not bloody likely!
comment by *Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 2 hours, 6 minutes ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 7 hours, 42 minutes ago
We should be looking at terraforming Venus
Interesting its size is so similar.
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Mate Venus is a hotter planet than mercury despite being further away from the Sun. this is due to its atmosphere.
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Yep, that's because of how much carbon is in the air, and it actually depends how far towards the surface you go, sky cities are a real possibility, as are artificially created plateaus (with robotic bulldozers)
But we can get that carbon out of the atmosphere, either with atmospheric carbon capture, or by pelting it with decent sized meteorites.
It's actually less of a challenge than mars, which doesn't have a magnetosphere, and doesn't have enough carbon left to create an atmosphere, if we can extract carbon from Venus, we could theoretically move it to/at mars when we solved the issue of protecting it from solar radiation (essentially need to put a microwave at a certain distance in orbit!) to create two habitable planets.
There's a lot of science to suggest Venus would be a much better option, the real appeal of Mars is that it's days are largely similar to our own in length.. not the case with Venus and it would probably need to be simulated with some sort of solar construct.
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 1 hour, 57 minutes ago
Every week should be a 4 day week.
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8 day week
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or by pelting it with decent sized meteorites.
————
?
How would that work, and what size asteroids?
Would we need like a Hubble Space Catapult to do it?
comment by Zachsda( My pals a bigot) (U1850)
posted 42 minutes ago
There’s a road near my house been closed for over a month due to a hole
I think we are a bit away from colonising Mars
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comment by *Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
or by pelting it with decent sized meteorites.
————
?
How would that work, and what size asteroids?
Would we need like a Hubble Space Catapult to do it?
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But seriously.. thrusters on a meteorite to change its trajectory
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 1 hour ago
comment by *Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
or by pelting it with decent sized meteorites.
————
?
How would that work, and what size asteroids?
Would we need like a Hubble Space Catapult to do it?
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But seriously.. thrusters on a meteorite to change its trajectory
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Seriously- is that a thing? Sounds like sci-fi stuff
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 1 hour ago
comment by *Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
or by pelting it with decent sized meteorites.
————
?
How would that work, and what size asteroids?
Would we need like a Hubble Space Catapult to do it?
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But seriously.. thrusters on a meteorite to change its trajectory
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Seriously- is that a thing? Sounds like sci-fi stuff
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Well, I think we both know that at this point no one has done it, but yes it's based in theory.. a bit like all space exploration/terraforming.
They can't even fix potholes
Well, they've already landed on an asteroid for a few seconds and they've got a little car slowly smashing up Mars, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that they might land on a little piece of rock and drive it around the solar system......
Baroness @CatharineHoey finally comes clean on sacrificing Northern Ireland at the altar of #Brexit - https://t.co/cZDxdsj5kg
Well well well
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posted on 30/8/21
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 2 hours, 42 minutes ago
Rentals are parasitic opportunism.
People can afford the £800 rent no problem, but the bank won't give them a £500 mortgage.
Dwellings are a human necessity, not an investment opportunity
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Can’t say I agree with some of that mate.
It’s not opportunism. It’s private property rights and a free market.
Banks I generally agree with, in recent decades they’ve gone from lending OTT to people that they shouldn’t lend to through to now not lending to enough people; one time they were making billions off mortgages and the other not so much…go figure….. even I’m not a fan of that at all. Mortgages should not be allowed to be bought up by IBs.
Shelter is a human necessity and luckily in countries like ours it is provided by the government/taxpayer but owning a property is not a right. We’re just not there yet as a society globally.
posted on 30/8/21
You shouldn't be allowed to buy to let. It's profiteering from people unable to get a mortgage, its exploitative charging silly rents to people who have no other choice, it's a way of keeping people in poverty and increasingly locking the lower classes out of asset inflation as a means of funding their retirement.
We aren't a free market society. We operate many sectors as protected monopolies (water, rail, etc), we top up poverty wages through working tax credits, and we have a corporate welfare budget of over £100bn.
Even the social housing sector isn't run as a free market, the government pays for their houses to be built via the HCA, with interest free depreciating loans equal to 95% of the cost of the build.
If *Anyone* wants to rent out a house, it should have to be managed by a social housing company, so that the house is kept at a decent standard, there is no discrimination about who can live in it, and it can be subject to all the laws those companies must follow, such as improving the EPC of the property.
posted on 30/8/21
Personally I prefer private property rights and much prefer the standards within the private sector.
Just because there are utility type companies with oligopolies or monopolies doesn’t mean we’re not in a free market society. In fact, we’re the seventh most free economies in the entire world.
posted on 30/8/21
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 5 hours, 36 minutes ago
Personally I prefer private property rights and much prefer the standards within the private sector.
Just because there are utility type companies with oligopolies or monopolies doesn’t mean we’re not in a free market society. In fact, we’re the seventh most free economies in the entire world.
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A free market society does not have a corporate welfare bill.
It's at complete odds to the principle.
Also the private sector does not deliver better standards, as I said, it's exploitative and keeps people entrenched in poverty, it's basically stolen two generations retirements as they are locked out of the asset inflation that "enriched" boomers.
Should be banned tbh.
posted on 30/8/21
Also, I'm not saying private ownership should be banned, I'm saying buying up second third fourth, tenth twentieth etc houses as buy to lets.
posted on 30/8/21
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 5 minutes ago
Also, I'm not saying private ownership should be banned, I'm saying buying up second third fourth, tenth twentieth etc houses as buy to lets.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes you want to control and limit private property rights.
What about yachts? Excess cars? How about clothes? Food?
It’s a messy road to go down and always ends up with the same result.
Destroying property rights is not the way to deal with the problem that you wish to solve. It will create far worse problems.
I’ve mentioned this many times to JS when he talks about this: increase the length of time permitted in an AST to like 7 years that will slowly but surely slow down rent increases and will allow families to fix a price for a longer period of time.
As for corporate welfare:
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/a4dd4a88-d8db-3f97-aafb-305acf5998a5
posted on 30/8/21
Comment deleted by Site Moderator
posted on 30/8/21
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posted on 30/8/21
From Earth to Multiverse
https://youtu.be/q1mkjkTqg0Y
What a great video
posted on 30/8/21
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posted on 30/8/21
We should be looking at terraforming Venus
Interesting its size is so similar.
posted on 31/8/21
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 7 hours, 42 minutes ago
We should be looking at terraforming Venus
Interesting its size is so similar.
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Mate Venus is a hotter planet than mercury despite being further away from the Sun. this is due to its atmosphere.
posted on 31/8/21
Every week should be a 4 day week.
posted on 31/8/21
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 15 hours, 53 minutes ago
From Earth to Multiverse
https://youtu.be/q1mkjkTqg0Y
What a great video
----------------------------------------------------------------------
How small minded are those that think they are something when they manage to invade a territory or half the globe.
Will the rest of the universe sit up and take note - at all?
Not bloody likely!
posted on 31/8/21
comment by *Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 2 hours, 6 minutes ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 7 hours, 42 minutes ago
We should be looking at terraforming Venus
Interesting its size is so similar.
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Mate Venus is a hotter planet than mercury despite being further away from the Sun. this is due to its atmosphere.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep, that's because of how much carbon is in the air, and it actually depends how far towards the surface you go, sky cities are a real possibility, as are artificially created plateaus (with robotic bulldozers)
But we can get that carbon out of the atmosphere, either with atmospheric carbon capture, or by pelting it with decent sized meteorites.
It's actually less of a challenge than mars, which doesn't have a magnetosphere, and doesn't have enough carbon left to create an atmosphere, if we can extract carbon from Venus, we could theoretically move it to/at mars when we solved the issue of protecting it from solar radiation (essentially need to put a microwave at a certain distance in orbit!) to create two habitable planets.
There's a lot of science to suggest Venus would be a much better option, the real appeal of Mars is that it's days are largely similar to our own in length.. not the case with Venus and it would probably need to be simulated with some sort of solar construct.
posted on 31/8/21
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 1 hour, 57 minutes ago
Every week should be a 4 day week.
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8 day week
posted on 31/8/21
Yeah alright Ringo.
posted on 31/8/21
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posted on 31/8/21
or by pelting it with decent sized meteorites.
————
?
How would that work, and what size asteroids?
Would we need like a Hubble Space Catapult to do it?
posted on 31/8/21
comment by Zachsda( My pals a bigot) (U1850)
posted 42 minutes ago
There’s a road near my house been closed for over a month due to a hole
I think we are a bit away from colonising Mars
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posted on 31/8/21
comment by *Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
or by pelting it with decent sized meteorites.
————
?
How would that work, and what size asteroids?
Would we need like a Hubble Space Catapult to do it?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But seriously.. thrusters on a meteorite to change its trajectory
posted on 31/8/21
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 1 hour ago
comment by *Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
or by pelting it with decent sized meteorites.
————
?
How would that work, and what size asteroids?
Would we need like a Hubble Space Catapult to do it?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But seriously.. thrusters on a meteorite to change its trajectory
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Seriously- is that a thing? Sounds like sci-fi stuff
posted on 31/8/21
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 1 hour ago
comment by *Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
or by pelting it with decent sized meteorites.
————
?
How would that work, and what size asteroids?
Would we need like a Hubble Space Catapult to do it?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But seriously.. thrusters on a meteorite to change its trajectory
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Seriously- is that a thing? Sounds like sci-fi stuff
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Well, I think we both know that at this point no one has done it, but yes it's based in theory.. a bit like all space exploration/terraforming.
They can't even fix potholes
posted on 31/8/21
Well, they've already landed on an asteroid for a few seconds and they've got a little car slowly smashing up Mars, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that they might land on a little piece of rock and drive it around the solar system......
posted on 31/8/21
Baroness @CatharineHoey finally comes clean on sacrificing Northern Ireland at the altar of #Brexit - https://t.co/cZDxdsj5kg
Well well well
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