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Originally Posted by aaron38
If you want to compare housing to iPhones, people who complained about the high cost of phones would first demand that each store sell only 30% of the phones they want to, then demand that everyone who buys a phone pay extra to subsidize "affordable" phones for others. Finally, anyone who tried to sell a smaller phone with less options would find their plan rejected and told they can only sell larger luxury phones that all the neighbors approve of.
Now ask yourself if there is any way that plan results in cheaper phones.
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Also every time the screen on one of the phone cracks or the battery life starts dying, the store must repair or replace the phone or get raked over the coals with fines and fees. Also, if the person buying the phone turns out to be a drug dealer, crackhead, or non-paying deadbeat, the store is not allowed to take the phone back and is also held responsible for all the actions of the person who has the phone. If you call the alderman about the owner of the phone being involved with shootings on the block, the alderman's response is "Gang bangers need phones too!"
Great plan for affordable phones!
Seriously though, I had a gangbanger in a building in Rosa's ward and the neighbors called to plea for help in getting rid of him after yet another shooting where someone finally got hit and the chief of staff told them "Gang bangers need a place to live too". My position is that they do have a place to live, it's called County. I ended up having to pay said gangbanger (who hadn't paid in like 7 months) $2000 to leave and had to personally rent a Uhaul truck to move him since he was a criminal and under house arrest and couldn't move any other way. Is there any sanity in this system? How can anyone hear stories like this and think this makes any sense? This is my day to day reality.