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Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out

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Re: Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

soVeryTired wrote: post #34
wegs wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, it puts food on the table, and my kids are hungry. And it keeps the debt collector at bay. The implied expectation of class / race / ethnic / ... loyalty is fundamentally flawed, though. I'm friends with people of many groups who are unlike me, and conversely, there are many people in my demographic whom I dislike. Not all [insert race][insert socioeconomic class][insert religion][insert ethnicity][insert career…

But so often it happens that the working class and the owning class ally to reduce the power of the working class. They rarely seem to ally against members of the owning class.

Because the owning class have really good PR(you can also be like us if you just work hard enough) and can afford better physical segregation and legal protection against the working class.

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Post by adamparsons »

Saint_Genet wrote: post #29

I guess that's a way to ensure you're among the first up against the wall.

Until I see the United States with my own two eyes, I will continue believing it’s a made up place / simulation that tests the absolute dead limits you can push capitalism to without starting a revolution

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Post by shadowgovt »

scarface74 wrote: post #17
raxxorrax wrote: post #3

And people say that startups often operate not in line with market trends. In Europe such debt collectors are notorious for very direct intimidation. But people at least still call them gangs instead of startups.

You don’t just knock on people’s door and start putting their things out. There is a legal process and you have to get approval from the court. I’m assuming they are doing it legally.

I wouldn't assume that. The housing crash indicated how many institutions were playing fast and loose with the law

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Post by mosselman »

Maybe someone will create a startup where you can hire another crew of gig workers to fight the landlord's crew and then create some sort of social media platform to stream the fights and make money from it by making the viewers pay to keep the stream online...

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Post by vcanales »

adamparsons wrote: post #42
Saint_Genet wrote: post #29

I guess that's a way to ensure you're among the first up against the wall.

Until I see the United States with my own two eyes, I will continue believing it’s a made up place / simulation that tests the absolute dead limits you can push capitalism to without starting a revolution

The States feel like so much worse and so much better than my country at the same time.

Re: Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out

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Post by rgblambda »

soVeryTired wrote: post #34
wegs wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, it puts food on the table, and my kids are hungry. And it keeps the debt collector at bay. The implied expectation of class / race / ethnic / ... loyalty is fundamentally flawed, though. I'm friends with people of many groups who are unlike me, and conversely, there are many people in my demographic whom I dislike. Not all [insert race][insert socioeconomic class][insert religion][insert ethnicity][insert career…

But so often it happens that the working class and the owning class ally to reduce the power of the working class. They rarely seem to ally against members of the owning class.

At the battle of Plataea during the Second Greco-Persian War, a number of Greek city-states fought on the Persian side. Why? Because the Persians were so big and powerful they were surely going to win.

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Post by Normille »

soVeryTired wrote: post #34
wegs wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, it puts food on the table, and my kids are hungry. And it keeps the debt collector at bay. The implied expectation of class / race / ethnic / ... loyalty is fundamentally flawed, though. I'm friends with people of many groups who are unlike me, and conversely, there are many people in my demographic whom I dislike. Not all [insert race][insert socioeconomic class][insert religion][insert ethnicity][insert career…

But so often it happens that the working class and the owning class ally to reduce the power of the working class. They rarely seem to ally against members of the owning class.

The biggest trick the ruling classes pull is convincing those on the bottom rungs of society to always kick downwards.

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Post by scarface74 »

shadowgovt wrote: post #43
scarface74 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don’t just knock on people’s door and start putting their things out. There is a legal process and you have to get approval from the court. I’m assuming they are doing it legally.

I wouldn't assume that. The housing crash indicated how many institutions were playing fast and loose with the law

I didn’t see any reports of banks in the US showing up to people’s doors, coming into their house and removing their stuff. Everything around the loan and foreclosure may have been shady, but the actual eviction is usually above board by the banks.

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Post by raxxorrax »

scarface74 wrote: post #32
raxxorrax wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They do mostly. They also like to remind you of their intend with batons and knifes on their belt. Violence is implied, not enacted. They stay within the confines of the law.

When I was a landlord, rule 101 is that you don’t go near the tenant while the eviction process was winding its way through court. Also, police are monitoring the process on the day of the conviction. Edit: Does someone care to share how the above statement is factually incorrect?

Makes sense and is perfectly understandable. Many people here actually let the renting be done by third party managing companies. Sure, that also costs you, but you can often save you quite some headaches. Even or especially if your tenants are friends of yours. Don't know the rates, but some even continue to pay you the rent if the tenant stops paying.

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Post by tuna-piano »

I understand evictions trigger lots of emotions and can be terrible situations for the tenant. But so many comments here seem to treat an apartment as something the tenant is entitled to, even without payment.

How is living at a property without paying for it any different than walking out of Walmart without paying for bread?

Staying at a place without paying rent is a form of direct theft. The non-paying-tenant is stealing use of the property without payment. It's somewhat normalized, but that doesn't make it ok or something anyone needs to tolerate.

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