Krampus should the entire US healthcare industry.
I see Luigi isn’t on the naughty list. Based Santa.
No wonder coal as a fossil fuel isn’t going away. The rich folk get so much during Christmas!
Man, Elon is on that list 7 times.
What makes you think he puts the cart away?
What makes you think he ever uses carts?
By definition he doesn’t put them away then.
Exactly
Forgot the health insurance company CEOs.
mmm
So long as politicians are all painted with the same negative brush, there’s no room for anyone with a genuine interest in improving things. There are some truly great, caring people in politics working hard to do the right thing. It’s not their fault the public keeps voting for assholes.
I’ve often felt that genuine politicians can’t possibly have it easy.
To even get started, step one is getting in bed with social media.
Many of my landlords were pretty decent people who actually cared about their tenants tho.
Don’t forget how many apartment buildings are owned by corporate landlords though. Western Canada has a huuuge problem with the slumlord billionaires at Mainstreet and others.
The out-of-date data I can find has 35% of BC apartments as investor-owned.
I guess that’s likely the difference. With the big company owned apartments you usually deal with a super intendant or building manager instead of the landlord directly. So the renter is seen as a faceless number rather than an actual person to the owners you are paying money to. There’s a lack of empathy towards the renter.
Is that why they stole their money?
Stole whose money? My money? My stove broke, they replaced it, pest issue, they paid for the exterminator, roof leaking, they paid for it to be fixed, many other examples but you get the idea. I didn’t pay utilities in some places. I’ve had bad landlords and I moved house because of them and didn’t do them any favours when I left. The good ones I made sure I was a good tenant for. I think a lot of renters don’t understand how expensive owning a place is with upkeep. We wouldn’t be able to replace a furnace or roof repair and all that jazz in our income bracket.
Landlords buy an essential good just so they can squeeze money out of their renters. Housing should never be seen as an investment, yet these parasites do.
There is a huge difference between a private owner, and a corporation. Anyhow they might have a common approach, I would say estate ownership should be limited to a certain number through incremental taxation the more you own the larger the tax bracket, like we do for income
Problem with that is they’ll charge even more and then the people never see that tax money
I am offended on behalf of the good people I know who made it so we could have housing when we can’t afford a mortgage or the housing upkeep costs. They were investments to them sure but they cared about their tenants. Call in the middle of the evening because the toilet wasn’t working and they came quickly with a brand new toilet. Couldn’t make that months rent till the middle of the month , no problem, pay when you can type thing. Every single landlord aren’t the devils you want them to be. I agree some of them are bad because I’ve had that experience too. I think maybe you should be angry with the banks and the giant conglomerates who pay you shit wages making you too poor to afford a mortgage or the upkeep for home ownership. I am not willing to lump all landlords in the same shit pile. I’ve seen second hand what being house poor is like. House is falling apart because they can’t afford to maintain it. Wearing winter coats inside because the furnace broke and can’t afford to fix it, not having a working toilet and shitting in a bucket with a trash bag. Also imagine having to buy a new house everytime you moved to a new town or different area of a big city. Renting a home or an apartment has a place in society.
For profit housing tho is kinda bad don’t you think? I’m not talking about one guy making a respectable living off running an apartment complex
The beauty of this is you’d be able to afford all of these if wages and housing costs were reasonable. The rich are the cause of both issues.
Are you suggesting landlords make zero profit off of the property?
The money we put in is more than the cost of the exterminator, roof not-leaking, many other examples but you get the idea.
No, I’m not suggesting that at all. Don’t know why you are suggesting I am?
The benefits of renting is that we are too poor, we do not have emergency funds to buy a new stove or what have you, but we are able to afford monthly rent. Repairs and stuff, that falls on the landlords. They charge an amount that will cover the cost of any repairs or appliance or plumbing replacements in the future, along with (if they don’t own the house outright) their mortgage payments on the house.
Right, you’re using them as insurance. You give them money, they pool cash you literally can’t get because the system is out to crush you, and on the off chance something goes wrong they take a small hit to their profiting from your suffering.
This is especially a funny take from a Canadian considering the reason your rent is high is rich people who can easily get more capital are buying up real estate with the sole purpose of raising prices without providing any additional service.
poor landlords. they should just sell.
I would like to add people who don’t wipe down gym equipment after using it.
Fucking digesting animals.
I mean, most people are digesting animals, unless they’re vegan.
All people are digesting animals because humans are animals who digest food.
Vegans taste the best, because they are grass fed.
CEOs?
If you are going to make me put a coin into a cart because you don’t trust me to be an adult and tidy up after myself without being nannied, then I am going to do my damndest to bypass your lock and leave a mess out of spite.
In the shops where I am trusted and not required to pay a coin (I never even carry cash these days) I tidy up because that is the decent thing to do.
Yeah, might just wanna remember that the people that clean up your mess aren’t the same ones who put a coin lock on the cart.
Maybe you don’t care, but your rage isn’t really being channeled in a way that gets vengeance on the right people. It just hurts your working class allies.
Maybe where you live you are an outlier and not representative of the average person behavior, like you are a better person than the average. At least where I leave there is no coin system and people leave carts all around. I suspect that is even worse than what I see because there are employees always gathering carts.
This is a severe attack against people who don’t put their carts away.
Their actions just leave a small inconvenience for other people … their actions don’t wholesale destroy the lives of entire groups of people or cause outright war, genocide, death or destruction.
People who don’t mind making the world a little bit worse for literally everyone else if it saves them some small amount of effort are the real monsters, because they think they’re not.
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I mean, ok, genocide is bad, too, I suppose.
You are right of course, but that’s part of the joke. I think it’s provokes such a viseral response because it’s directly “against” the reader, not many of us can claim to be directly impacted by genocide for example, even though it’s way worse.
lol … I find it humorous that I’m getting downvoted for saying it … if only people would get as upset about people putting away shopping carts as they do actual real world genocide.
You think someone posting that they’re pro-genocide would get less down votes?
Everyone agrees you should put your cart away, but there is no reward for doing so and no punishment for not doing it. Therefore it says a lot about the individual if they will “do the right thing” just because it makes things slightly better for other people, or if they won’t bother doing a simple act in order to avoid inconveniencing someone else if they aren’t forced to do so.
For such a simple act, it shows an extreme amount of selfishness to not do it.
Well…maybe you should put your cart away lazybones. Then you won’t have to worry about the Krampus getting you.
I starting to think that people have more respect for Krampus than they do the United Nations.
Obviously not as bad as genocide but it’s pretty close.
Funny I never see such hatred for people who leave their garbage on movie theatre seats or not clearing their trays at fast food places. Some people have disabilities and sometimes it’s just tough enough to shop and they are too tired or worn out by the end of their monthly shopping trip to bring the cart to the cart shed. I feel like everyone shitting on people leaving carts out of the cart shed are fully able bodied healthy young people who will one day do the thing they are complaining about, and realise they were being wieners about it. It’s not the end of the world to leave your cart 10 metres from the shed.
Fuck off and walk a couple of meters. Seriously as a non american this level of egoism is unfathomable for me
Some day, if you are lucky, you will be at an age where you are able to walk the grocery store very slowly and feebly, relying on your cart to stand up and lean on, but too old and tired to to bring it to the cart shed.
It’s really not that big of a crime.
