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@mayonesa@berserker.town
Its even worse than that.. building dont get built to begin with. Lets face it if your average worker was responsible enough to manage getting a building built they probably wouldnt need a landlord to begin with.
Having low or inconsistent wages is itself the result of irresponsibility in some sense.. Though to be clear i dont mean it the way it sounds. In the sense that many of these people were just raised with poor ideas and poor oppertunities to learn how to be responsible. It isnt willful all the time.
But it usually stems from this anti-capital sillyness. They stub their noses at successful people and laugh at their advice (like not spending money on frivolous things)... Those same people if they had devoted their free time to aquiring marketable skills they wouldnt be low-income to begin with. And to be fair i know it sounds like im blaming them, I'm not... because school and access to education costs money they dont have, so I get those difficulties (and generally encourage social programs to remedy it).. but the thing is, its not the land lord to blame, its usually some combination of either lack of opportunity for them to acquire skills, or a lack of willingness to pursue it. Usually some combination of the two.
@freemo @mayonesa@berserker.town @AdrianRiskin @jeffowski Do not conflate "being responsible" with "having money". Most of the people who rent do so because their wages are too low or too inconstant to build a home to code before saving up a fund over their entire working career.
If the tenants couldn't afford the housing unit, the landlords couldn't make a profit.