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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social -1 points 4 weeks ago (21 children)

Company ownership of housing seemed to work fine in Germany, and is significantly better than non-professional landlords who will see to your faulty boiler or tap in 2-7 business months.

High housing costs are mainly due to one thing: lack of housing. That is caused by not building enough houses, or not filling the ones you do have (e.g. because they are Airbnbs and are vacant most of the time). For companies to cause problems they have to buy so many homes they can abuse their market share by forcing rents up, which you would see as an increasing vacancy rate. As far as I know this has not been happening.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] FishFace@piefed.social 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago

That's okay, glad we cleared that up

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