• 4am@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      If the former residents had been smarter, they’d have worked at a job that made more money and simply purchased a home outright using their diverse investment portfolio as collateral. Hmph!

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      Bullshit, the landlords could choose to rent them out for apartments, but that would be less money for them. It’s the landlords fault much more than the tourists, because they’re the ones putting them on Airbnb.

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      2 days ago

      Unpopular opinion:

      It’s the government fault for not writing laws that protect housing for its citizens.

      It doesn’t matter how much you think it’s imoral (it is) but the simple fact is anyone will always follow his nature given the chance. Landlords will landlord and tourists will tourist. Laying the fault on them and doing nothing makes you complicit. They won’t stop ever, because it’s not their nature. It’s the government that has to force them.

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      3 days ago

      Spain has built a pretty big tourism industry. Stopping people from coming in would result in a lot of unemployment.

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            There are a lot of answers to that, snd i cannot think of a worse one than what we have right now.

            But my favorite: the people doing and supporting it.

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                  Carry on; i won’t interrupt.

                  Of course you won’t. We’re on the internet, and I can post anything I want.

                  That’s another thing you should read up on.

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                    interrupt

                    I meant your meticulously maintained ignorance, dear. Sorry, i was assuming you had interiority and weren’t a philosophical zombie.

                    can post anything i want

                    You definitely cannot, and much of what you could would be banned.