I know… There are 10 dental schools in Canada, the odds of getting in to one to have any work done are almost literally like winning the lottery. I’m sure it’s not much better in the U.S. plus you have to be lucky enough to live near one. The nearest major city to me is 8 hours away. And typically you have to fit within an income threshold, which we don’t as we are a two income household with benefit, albeit benefits that are quite limited.

And rarely available, and far away for most people. Getting in to a dental school for complicated work is like winning the lottery.

If you have a cavity that you can’t afford to deal with go get some clove oil ( yes, I know how people feel about essential oils and I usually agree- but this is legit) and cotton swabs. Soak the swab in the oil to excess and then put the swab in the cavity and squeeze the excess oil into the cavity. This is going to taste like you ate a thousand pounds of cinnamon and your mouth might water- a lot, but clove oil is a dentist approved antiseptic. You have to be careful, it can burn your face skin if you get it anywhere unintended.

I have been slowly losing my teeth over the past decade and am too broke to fix it, so I had to rely on clove oil between being able to afford extractions. It helped a lot. If the oil doesn’t work then the infection is too far gone and you need good antibiotics. They wouldn’t even be able to extract a tooth that bad.

One problem at time. Using the overwhelming tactic is just that, a tactic. Just because there are other issues we face, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight this battle. But at the end of the day the answer is yes- we should review all existing items that one can buy. Have you seen the state of the environment lately?

I would love a co op

No one has a right to own multiple properties

If you buy it, live in it. That’s not communism, that’s taking control of a crisis. Feel free to rent out part of the house while you live in it, in fact some places are incentivizing exactly that. But owning multiple homes for profit is the problem, whether it’s by corporations or “mom and pop” landlords. It’s a problem we can and should fix.

Owning multiple homes for profit is a large part of the current crisis. People shouldn’t be able to withhold homes and hold them ransom.

That makes no sense at all.

And becoming wealthy by withholding human rights from others isn’t “survival”.

Correct, but only one mountain can be climbed at a time. We have more reliable food sources than housing sources right now.

Do you trust anyone to do that? How do you think we ended up with billionaires? By people being gracious? Too many people are too greedy for that to work.

What makes you think I don’t? Greed wins every time.

Then we should pay more taxes.

Those rentals should be a social project not a profit driven one.

I said achieve wealth. These people aren’t generating large amounts of personal wealth by withholding a basic human right from someone

Choosing to use a basic human right as a form of income is scummy. All landlords are scum, whether they are rich or not.

You should never achieve wealth by the oppression of someone else. Housing is a human right, not a salary.

The rent that pays the mortgage he couldn’t afford to pay. All rent is is paying someone else’s mortgage.

If you buy it, live in it. Stop contributing to the housing crisis. Greed got us here, it certainly won’t get us out.

Rentals should be socialized, not owned by corporations or private citizens.