Comments by "Kalimdor199" (@Kalimdor199Menegroth) on "Why are European Rents Skyrocketing?" video.

@xshme His property is his value. And he has every right to monetize it. It is not your property. If you do not like the terms, then move out. He is right in what he says. If the government is raising his cost of maintenance and compliance, that is going to reverberate into the rent that the tenants pay. Otherwise, you can ask the Berliners how fun was during the period of rent checks there, where owners would not even bother maintaining and repairing their property because it wasn't worth it. The cost of maintaining was bigger than the rent they received, so 0 investment. As a tenant, you were happy that you could live with a cheap rent... but not happy that you lived in a cesspool. I do not understand from where your logic comes from. Think of property just like any other product. If one raises taxes for your product, you raise the price of the product as well, because you need to cover the higher cost of production. Or, you fire people to reduce the cost of production.
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Rent control will not help with this. What needs to happen is less taxation and regulations for the construction sector, so that it can meet the demand. What is driving prices up is an increase in demand for housing, but in a market environment where the constructions sector is burdened with costs of compliances generated by heavy taxation and regulations. Luckily for me, I live in a country that beats world records in terms of house ownership (95%+ of the populations owns property). As such, even though rents might've gone up here as well, such a small percentage of the populations rents housing that it is barely noticeable.
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It is common sense. In most countries, especially in developed ones, having your own house is a prerequisite to making a family and having kids. Most people that live well into their adulthood with their parents do not have family, much less kids. It is not rocket science. Imagine marrying your soulmate and having kids with her in a small apartment which you share with your in laws, or her in laws. That is not a conducive environment for a healthy couple life. Nor to raise kids. I know a lot of families that went this route and ended up breaking apart eventually.
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@TheAmericanAmerican Yes, we had communism before. And there is no stateless, classless, moneyless society. They tried it, it didn't work. It is called utopia. It is not crazy bro. Communism is what Marx called the dictatorship of the proletariat. And he envisioned the society that you described. The only problem is that he had no idea how that would be reached and he never provided the way to reach it. Probably because even he knew you cannot reach it since it defies human nature, which is as hierarchical as it can get. Lenin tried it in USSR. Pol Pot tried it too. We both know how those experiments ended up.
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@puraLusa I am not referring to safety regulations, but to useless regulations like imposing new flat buildings to have their own heating generator rather than the usual household ones. When you do that, what do you think happens? Housing prices goes up because the constructor needs to integrate a heating generator for the building. Europe is strict in building regulations but in an unnecessary way. Because there are fewer environmental hazards here than in the US. You don't really have periodic tropical storms, hurricanes, tornadoes or whatever in Europe. If this happens, those are exceptions rather than the norm. US housing is also safe, but then again, US is a continent size country. They have a lot of space to build. Which is why the average US city, while not having a lot of populations, is easily bigger in size than an European capital.
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No. It shouldn't be.
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@TheAmericanAmerican Ok commie. In a democratic capitalist state, what you propose, doesn't happen. Also, keep in mind that the solution you promote is dangerous. Back during communism, if you allow the state nationalize property, just as it can give you a house, it can also take it away. High rental/housing prices usually has to do with government taxation/regulations. In EU, it also has to do with EU imposed regulations. Not with some landlords hiking up prices because they feel like. When the government imposes regulations or more taxes, it is only natural that your landlord raises your rent too. Because the guy has to pay up his bills as well.
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@TheAmericanAmerican "Wait you mean the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia actually all first achieved a worker-owned, small government society (socialism) and then went on to a stateless(no government), classless, moneyless society (communism)??? Bro, like mind blown!" Yes. I mean they did what Marx told them. Gain power, confiscate all private property and make it state-owned (i.e. owned by 'the people'), made a small government ruled by a small elite (the chosen enlightened people which they claim represented 'the people') and tried to implement a stateless, classless, moneyless society. The result? Genocide. Yes bro, get your mind blown. Lenin actually banned money. Pol Pot too, banned money, because he wanted the old trade and barter system. They made a classless society, cause everyone except the leaders were working on the paddy fields in concentration camps. However, all realized that 1) you cannot implement the communist policies without a state or a government and 2) even if you don't intend to promote hierarchies, you will eventually promote them, because human nature is hierarchical. Communism failed because it is utopic and against human nature. The whole system is a walking contradiction. They claimed they were representing the people. But they were not elected. They claimed they were equal to the people. But they were in power while the rest were fed the idea that they were in power through them (there is an old joke from communist Romania where the people ate caviar and drunk champagne through their communist elite). They claimed that the confiscated property belongs to everyone, when in fact it belongs to those in power exclusively. So on and so forth. Communists thought that they can reshape nature and society through social engineering, only to realize that they can't. You can't have a stateless society. You can't have a classless society. You can't have a moneyless (valueless) society. You can't. You can try to obtain it through tyranny, but the result we have seen.
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@TheAmericanAmerican XD Mate, I am a Romanian. I kind of lived your Marxist lunacy. It is you who gets your info from History Channel. I get mine from real life experience.
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@TheAmericanAmerican And what does an American soy boy knows about communism or socialism? North Koreans that have escaped from North Korea do not claim that they lived in a democratic republic. Also, all these communist states add 'democratic' in their country name. Because democracy in them is in name only. You do not need to add democratic in your name unless you don't have democracy. "It doesn't matter what the name is or what the leaders call it. It all comes down to the actions." Romania was not a socialist state or communist state in name only. It was in practice as well. It ran exactly how Marx wanted it to run. Like the dictatorship of the proletariat, which he described it well. "You formerly lived under an authoritarian dictatorship that utilized state-runned capitalism." Nope. We lived in a socialist dictatorship that utilized a state-run centralized socialist economic model. That's it. And yes, it was communist since it did not allow private property. Capitalism, even state-run capitalism, allows private property at least to a limited degree. "Had Marx lived to see Lenin's rise to power, he'd have offed himself in frustration." Nah, he would've embraced him. Lenin did exactly what Marx wanted, but not in the environment Marx envisioned. Marx developed his theory having Germany as the setting, i.e. a highly industrialized state with a large labor class. Russia was a backward, less industrialized, agrarian society. So you could not emulate 100% Marxism into Russia because Russia was not Germany. Which is why you western middle-class caviar socialists go on rambling the malarkey that 'real socialism has not been implemented. My foot. Also, Marx never knew how he could implement in practice his theory. Had he lived to see the result of his ideas, I think he would've regretted and reconsidered. Cause sometimes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Marx was a dreamer with good intentions down beneath. The problem is that his good intentions developed a system that went contrary to human nature and the way human society functions. Not to mention his flawed understanding of economics as well as lack of hindsight. He was not capable of comprehending that the status of the labor class can actually improve beyond the one they had in the 19th century. I mean... compare the living and working conditions of a 19th century worker to the one of today. Nobody can deny that things improved significantly. And not because of socialists or communists... but because of capitalism. Because some capitalist, such as Ford, realized, that in order for capitalism to thrive, people need to be uplifted from poverty. As such, rather than paying workers at barely the subsistence level, they raised salaries, imposed a new standard (which later on the states took it upon themselves and took the credit too), a middle class started to rise and flourish and we reached the current times of unprecedented wealth.
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@kaninma7237 Uhm... you technically worked to obtain property. Exploiting my property that I bought or inherited is accumulating resources based on no work. I worked to obtain it, I work to maintain it and I rent it in exchange for money. Simple as that my communist friend. If you cannot afford the rent, then don't rent it. Search more cheaper options or just stay home with your parents until you raise enough money to buy a house/flat or rent one.
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This is what happens when you consistently vote left-wing government for decades. More taxes, more regulations, more difficulty for the construction sector to build cheap housing and meet the demand of the population... When you need a license of everything then do not wonder why rents and housing are so expensive.
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@toneloc-cz2xi This is true as well.
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