• @[email protected]
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    223 days ago

    People don’t “want to rent”. They want shelter. It’s just that renting is the easiest way to get that.

    • Photuris
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      -123 days ago

      People don’t “want to work.” They want money. It’s just that working is the easiest way for most people to get that.

      Well, thanks Captain Obvious. Statements like that are technically true, but how helpful are they for contributing to a conversation?

      • @[email protected]
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        323 days ago

        People don’t “want to work.”

        I don’t think that’s true, but I suppose then we’d have a debate over what “work” is.

        Statements like that are technically true, but how helpful are they for contributing to a conversation?

        Well, we were having a discussion about renting vs. owning which you seemed to understand were two different things.

      • @[email protected]
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        221 days ago

        greedy people have this weird argument that the rest of humanity shares their mental illness of worshiping money.