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.

    • 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.