Yes and no, they are behaving like Azeris. This is not acceptable.

like – it’s legitimately cruel, emotionally and socially,

Really unexpected to see somebody not forgetting this aspect on the Web. Thx

This is no longer an exclusively Russian-speaking spaces joke, I take it?

It wouldn’t, because a landlord proxies tenants’ bidding.

It’s funny, I had some course (or maybe it was after class activity) for one year called don’t remember what in school (2 different things, one kinda economics, one kinda sociology), we’d basically roleplay political systems and economic systems.

It’d give you the correct answer very quickly. Only you need a group of 20+ who are not all friends (like in a class).

And how are they treated by them, exactly? Asked to pay for the space provided?

corporate landlords

OK, maybe I was too quick to judge. See, in my country most landlords own 1-3 apartments which they rent out. That includes new construction. The idea of “corporate landlords” is not very common here.

If there’s no way a person willing to be such a 1-3 apartments’ landlord can buy realty to rent out in USA - then you may be right.

If there is, then my position doesn’t change.

We are talking about 100x profit vs 10x profit for developers.

You are saying that rent a landlord collects from an apartment in 10 years (you may make it 5 years or 20 years, should be the span of time in which landlord’s investment should return) is 10x the price for which the landlord buys it? That is, what you pay to a landlord in 1 year is the cost of the apartment plus utilities plus decoration plus furniture? I suspect this is not true.

You’re the only one being aggressive in this thread ; I’m being deliberately insensitive to worthless arguments and emotions from worthless people. OK, now you are not the only one anymore, maybe.

You are the one responsible for carrying through your own point. Your failure to do that is not my problem.

So you are saying they are some secret club, and without joining it you can’t buy a house for the same price a landlord does?

Except highers supply doesn’t bring prices to same level.

If there are no artificial limitations to supply, and no demand growth, it eventually will. Eventually as in time of regulation.

The only reason prices are 10 times bigger is because landlords ready to pay those prices.

They are ready to pay those prices because their tenants are ready to pay the prices they, in turn, offer. Which means that they don’t inflate demand.

Hahahahahhaaha. I’m not sure if you really think that way or only pretending.

You are illiterate in economics. I really don’t get why do you think putting “laugh” in text would negate that.

So what prevents you from buying directly from developers?

You mean you’d pay the same amount for a house as a landlord pays? But you can do that now, why don’t you?

Has nobody ever informed you that growing demand leads to price growth only if supply grows slower? But if prices grow, then supply does also grow faster. These are feedback loops.

Which means that what a house costs now it would cost still, after a short transient process.

“Suck all supply”, my ass. You mean that you’d buy that house for 1/10 of what the landlord has paid for it, because it’d just be there, like a mushroom after rain? It wouldn’t get built, dummy, cause it wouldn’t be worth the money.

It’s funny, somehow I managed to understand this before any college. Because supply and demand are supposedly quite intuitive.

You mean, worse than you speak of landlords?

this is why they are always supportive of “small government” it’s just a dog whistle for unregulated market.

A “dog whistle” is something disguising the true message, while there’s no attempt to hide it here.

(I am in support of an unregulated market, but also of trade unions and consumer unions and anarcho-syndicalism, which are natural parts of it)

Actually yes.

In my childhood it wasn’t very easy to find a licensed copy (TBF, even pirate copy sometimes), but demos would be distributed with magazines etc.

And after playing a demo which you like a licensed honestly bought copy becomes emotionally much better than piracy.

It was a working mechanism. For games which are not crap anyway.

You mean that sound of finger bones clicking against one another? Just have to clap sufficiently hard and fast.

oilets in India (and probably rest of Asia) are at ground level, with two porcelain blocks on either side to keep your feet on (the blocks are set into the ground and have a rough top; neither you nor they will slip). Most hotels will also have western toilets.

Also this was the most common kind in the USSR.

“Western” seats are something more luxury, may or may not (EDIT: back then, not now, though I haven’t been in really depressive parts) be present even in apartment bathrooms.

Just relaxing and knowing where your center of weight is helps.

(My practice is Moscow in early spring or late autumn days after everything melted and froze again.)

Common for everybody learning a language in an educational institution without RL practice. Immersion, of course, is the best way to learn a language, - gives good results even if you didn’t know it at all before being, eh, immersed.

Most of social media has been like this for me since forever, same with RL groups I don’t choose, like school or university, frankly.

Their intention is to value a separate person with their statement as little as possible (in extremes as little as themselves). Your comment isn’t supposed to be considered an individual thought, it’s supposed to go into predetermined classification, using some key words.

People with little brain power would simply feel themselves bad without such classification. While with it they can deceive themselves that their “yeah sure we believe you lol” is equivalent to a proper expression of your thought materialized in words.

Other than that, reading texts is a rare pastime for some.