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If it's not vacant, it's someone's primary residence which is recorded, but also the landlords will have receipts and be taxed. If there is a vacant unit, the landlord's income wit…

It's realistic, but not common. We did it, and we did it because we read about someone else doing it.

Some folks (myself among them) view the idea that because someone started wealthy they should be able to get more wealthy simply because they can leverage their existing wealth to …

Aggressively tax vacant units is the simplest to implement, but there's a lot (lot) more that could be done.

Abandoned homes aren't the same as vacant homes. Most cities have low double digit vacancy rates. Whatever city you live in, odds are good there are units sitting vacant while peop…

With the exception of people who are landlords for the purposes of mutual aid. We rented a room out for a bit, but only charged "what you could pay" with a hard upper cap of "what …

It absolutely kills me that there are approximately 30 empty homes for every homeless person in the States. (Roughly 550k homeless and roughly 16M vacant homes.) Investors are part…

Yes, 1000 times yes. The idea that housing is an investment (or that you can invest in housing you'll never use) distorts so many systems in America. We stop thinking about housing…

No, I think the point being made is that it's bad to set wages this way. If every company is colluding, then wages are being kept artificially low. (Even in tech, where engineers a…

Sports, especially global sporting events, are always political. Double especially when cities bid and bribe for the right to host. Triple when they have to build infrastructure th…

There are few skills more important to an engineer than concise, clear technical writing. It enables engineers to scale beyond themselves.

Strong unions could do industrial action to take down the site. Take the server offline.

10% annual tax on wealth above $1 billion would get us pretty close.

Twitter workers could strike and shut down the site, they could strike and not make changes like the $8 verification badge, they could strike until Musk agreed to reasonable work h…

It's in the context of a thread where Elon is being demonstrably cruel. Read the op for examples.

HN definitely has a range of ideological bents, and in my experience you'll run into a huge variety of ideologies. But among them all, pro-worker anti-capitalist is pretty rare. (O…

I'm dumbfounded that anyone thinks these were underperforming employees.

That's probably a bit extreme for me (and I'm a self described communist). A million dollars of property is a fraction of a house in major urban areas who have seen big upswings in…

Labor solidarity is an extremely common, useful, and productive way to think about boss vs worker concerns. It's why we don't cross picket lines, why we unionize and support other …

You are probably right, tbh.

It's easy. It's easier to buy there than elsewhere because it's habit. I stopped prime a couple years ago, I buy from other stores when I can, but sometimes you just need protein p…

He is. Demonstrably.

Maybe it's time to consider whether we're better off not having such concentrations of wealth... Let Musk keep $5B, he'll be able to live luxuriously forever on that. But he won't …

If Twitter had unionized they could have protected themselves from the whims of Musk. It's still likely Musk would have massacred the company, but maybe people wouldn't be getting …

The absolute cruelty of Musk through this whole process is astounding. One has to assume he's like this at his other companies as well, which is absolutely shredding their reputati…