Revisiting

 I have already posted a post like this but I just want to revisit the topic of rent and apartments and poverty.  In New York there is some craziness with people refusing to leave apartments after they can't pay rent, and organizations that defend "tenants rights," etc. And I just want to say that I think our society as a whole could really benefit from considering using more of a rent-to-own condo system instead of apartment rental where you pour money into property management buildings and never actually own your space.  Often there are supposedly smart people who go into debt to own stuff like houses and apartments and then rent it out to collect more cash, so it is really a matter of a signature about who gets the money.  But that "ha ha, suckers" factor is a sign that there could be some injustice that people will eventually answer for. I am not a socialist and I actually think more justice in this system could prevent the socialism that is at risk because of the poverty.  I won't say that much more about it, except that condo payment systems do exist and are wiser for all parties involved.  Some parables in the bible are interesting to look at too, where Jesus is using the absurd violations of landlords, rental, and tenants to illustrate the absurd extravagance of God's love.  In other words, God is as ridiculously good as we are bad. Renters are generally considered more foolish than people who have a mortgage, but the real fools are people who take advantage of poor people in God's sight.  It's actually not a good thing to be at an extreme where you leverage someone's poverty and make them pay and pay and still have nothing.  Along with what could be an already unjust rent system, gouging gets added to it too, and is one of the reasons in our society why increasing wages won't solve all the problems.  That is all, I have said it before, but I will also add that I am not impressed with the musical called Rent, either. New York thinks everything is about themselves, and that once they choose the socialism to correct the bad capitalism, then the whole country has to go along with it.  But we won't, and people will pay for the way they have taxed their neighbors.