• Bonehead
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    945 months ago

    Holmes told Channel 2 consumer investigator Justin Gray that he used his life savings to buy a DeKalb County home out of foreclosure eight months ago as a rental property.

    Aaaaaaand there goes all my sympathy…

    • Rhynoplaz
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      575 months ago

      But he just wanted to find someone else to make all the payments for him and eventually provide a passive income. These damn squatters are just trying to get something for free.

      (Corporate wants you to find the differences in these photos…)

          • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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            25 months ago

            Also that.

            The dumb thing is that it almost works very well. Stuff people deem important gets built, and if you need to buy something there’s always somebody selling it. It’s just that there’s no cap on how much stuff you can have, and through a quirk of mathematics at some point getting more stuff becomes self-perpetuating.

            • Billiam
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              15 months ago

              It breaks down significantly when the cost of entry becomes prohibitively expensive.

              You think you can build a better toothbrush? Go for it.

              You hate your ISP and want to start a new one? Good fucking luck.