Two sisters were shocked when a Toronto landlord raised their rent by $7,000 per month.

The landlord had told them he wanted to raise the rent to $3,500 and when they complained he decided to raise it to $9,500.

“We know that our building is not rent controlled and this was something we were always worried about happening and there is no way we can afford $9,500 per month," Yumna Farooq said.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.world
      214·
      10 months ago

      I don’t disagree but what we need is stability. So far capitalism has given the US that. If you’re proposing a different system fine just make sure that while we move to it the perceived wealth of the country doesn’t take a hit and after it is implemented do the same.

      I don’t think it is possible from here. What we really need is loads more regulation and Corp criminals going to prison to start.

        • Dkarma@lemmy.world
          11·
          10 months ago

          Largest gdp and arguably most stable economy of scale on the planet what are you talking about?
          See this is what I’m talking about. Just devoid of reality

          • SlikPikker@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Coal Wars, Conscription, Red scare, Segregation, Civil Rights Oppression, Violence, Drug War, international chaos and war.

            What are you talking about?

      • SlikPikker@lemmy.caEnglish
        41·
        10 months ago

        They said, not even knowing where I’m from. There are people who would be dead without Soviet Authoritarianism.

        And somehow that’s not what I’m advocating.

        • LeFantome@programming.dev
          23·
          10 months ago

          Well, would I be very far wrong to say that you are from Canada? Perhaps people are less ignorant than you think.

        • Aux@lemmy.world
          25·
          10 months ago

          A LOT MORE people would be alive and well without Soviet Authoritarianism or any other flavour of socialism/communism.

      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
        171·
        10 months ago

        Yes, the only two options are capitalism and full on Chinese dictatorship communism.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          71·
          10 months ago

          So, this is a testy thread, but if you have a specific idea of what you do want I’m very interested. Capitalism is a weird solution but other than old-school communism (which was honestly a series of kludges masquerading as a solution) I’ve yet to hear another solution described in detail.

          • SlikPikker@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            You should examine the social and economic structures of the Anarchist governed areas in Ukraine and Spain during their respective civil wars.

            It wasn’t a given that Socialist movements should be Authoritarian. Lenin bears most of the blame for that (the bastard); Marx some.

            • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
              1·
              10 months ago

              I actually have looked into that. From what I can tell they never really had a well-defined economic structure, since building up the economy bigger isn’t a consideration when fighting for your existence, and used a market system for basic purchases of supplies. Modern Rojava is the same way.

              The Republicans were pretty close to winning from what I’ve heard, and if I could see parallel universes what they would have settled on after a victory would be one of the first few things I’d be interested in.

              • SlikPikker@lemmy.caEnglish
                2·
                10 months ago

                Sure, they used mixed economics.

                The main point is that used mainly collectivist economics, and did so without establishing authoritarian societies.

        • terath@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          59·
          10 months ago

          There is also Soviet communism, Cuban communism, and North Korean communism. I’m sure one of those countries will happily welcome you with lovely high quality public housing.

          • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
            86·
            10 months ago

            I own my home. I’m just not a scumbag leech on society like you guys.

            • ByteWizard@lemm.eeEnglish
              38·
              10 months ago

              Do you think you’ll get to keep your house under communism?

              Mao thought that he could catapult his country past its competitors by herding villagers across the country into giant people’s communes. In pursuit of a utopian paradise, everything was collectivised. People had their work, homes, land, belongings and livelihoods taken from them. In collective canteens, food, distributed by the spoonful according to merit, became a weapon used to force people to follow the party’s every dictate. As incentives to work were removed, coercion and violence were used instead to compel famished farmers to perform labour on poorly planned irrigation projects while fields were neglected.