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| GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: Bud on March 27, 2020, 01:08:48 am ---If it were not you shitting in every C thread, they would be 10x smaller. --- End quote --- Aahh... Now I remember that name! 8) :palm: I'm sorry for everyone's losses too, including a lot from my family. It snowballs so fast!! Loose your job, can't pay rent/mortgage, kids home from school, can't pay/send little kids to childcare etc etc. Am 'lucky'(?) I'm on an Invalid Medical Pension already, so jobs/money/living is not an issue. And being already 'confined' to the house there is no problem regarding 'Social-Isolation'. (Not even been to a shop in months!). But we have been trying to help family & friends when we can! :-+ |
| Red Squirrel:
--- Quote from: daqq on March 27, 2020, 07:35:48 am ---Until a few months ago, a lot of the world economy was running in YOLO mode and being rewarded for it by success. Thereby creating a glorious society full of wonders that can shatter at a moments notice and will require an insane amount of work to stabilize. --- End quote --- I've always felt this system was bad and doomed from the start. You need to be able to run with some kind of contingency, but current age economy does not run that way. It's running on fumes all the time and expecting everything to be 110% on all cylinders at all times and the slightest fart is going to make it crap out. Then again I'm not any better myself, if I lost my job I'd have to put my house on the market yesterday because the next bill that comes out will bankrupt me. Costs of living and costs of doing business keep going up so for individuals and small business the margins are so thin. The big corporations have tons of leg room but not the small ones. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on March 27, 2020, 02:50:31 pm --- --- Quote from: daqq on March 27, 2020, 07:35:48 am ---Until a few months ago, a lot of the world economy was running in YOLO mode and being rewarded for it by success. Thereby creating a glorious society full of wonders that can shatter at a moments notice and will require an insane amount of work to stabilize. --- End quote --- I've always felt this system was bad and doomed from the start. You need to be able to run with some kind of contingency, but current age economy does not run that way. It's running on fumes all the time and expecting everything to be 110% on all cylinders at all times and the slightest fart is going to make it crap out. --- End quote --- I agree, but we just can't permanently live (and prepare) as though tomorrow was going to be the end of the world either. We wouldn't be achieving much, and a significant chunk of all people may end up dying of nervous breakdown. Maybe it's ok though, as we may have "achieved" enough, or even too much, already. Dunno. We have to find a balance of course, but I think it's harder than it looks. So much so that nature will probably repeatedly "help" us. |
| Kasper:
My wife got a new job in a nearby city months ago. Since then we have been renting an apartment while preparing our little old house to be a short term vacation rental. I dug myself into a hole doing renos for that, paying rent and buying components for various projects I'm working on. Chances of getting money from vaca rental now are slim to none. Considered making it a long term rental but tenants in BC have a lot of rights and it is very risky. On top of that, BC just announced tenants can't get evicted for not paying rent so the risk associated to long term tenant is now even greater so that is off the table. Been working on some frivolous gadgets (things that I can design, build and sell quickly on my spare time), hoping to start selling some soon but now I don't think there is much market for frivolous gadgets. I'm happy I still have a job, at a tech startup in sports / healthcare, seems like we'll keep running. Between vaca rental, selling gadgets and occasional contract design work, I was really close to surviving on my own. My boss tells me it's ok to underpay me because he underpays everyone. I was really looking forward to quitting but now I'm doing the opposite, requesting extra hours so I can try to get out of the hole I dug before things go sideways. |
| james_s:
At a glance tenant rights seem like a good thing, but that is a perfect example of the problems that are created by not having balance. If tenants have too many rights then there is little incentive for someone to rent out property they own and that means fewer rentals available. |
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