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[โ€“] notgold@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Booking dot com aren't buying homes that families could live in are they? Booking dot com are just facilitating bitch face making money on a human right. Systemic change is required:

  • banning people owning more than 1 or maybe 2 homes
  • taxing property earning at 90%
  • no tax deductions for property costs
  • building more government (fed, state and council) owned social housing
  • short term rentals susceptible to same rules as hotels
  • short term rentals requiring council approval

The game is rigged but we shouldn't give a pussy pass to the players just because they can play. They should be shunned and labelled as traitors to society.

[โ€“] wpb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah sure I'm in total agreement. But we're not choosing between tackling property ownership systematically versus hurting the systematic evil of booking. We're choosing between hurting one single landlord and hurting booking. And again for me this is a very obvious choice because I'm against booking for the reasons I mentioned earlier, but if you're completely okay with booking, then I totally get why you would prefer hurting one single landlord over the neutral or benevolent entity of booking. I would arrive at the same conclusion.