The government doesn’t build houses. Taxpayer dollars don’t build houses.
I agree the submarine deal is ridiculous, we don’t need submarines - but the money paying for them wouldn’t be used to build houses or address the housing crisis.
Reducing demand by reducing immigration will absolutely reduce house prices. That is the very basis of supply and demand.
Removing all immigrants that have overstayed their visa is a no-brainer. Reducing immigration to a sustainable level is another. Anyone disagreeing doesn’t actually want to fix the housing crisis.
“Climate change” and fossil fuels have no impact on this lol. What affects housing prices is supply and demand, and the cost of money. When money is cheap, people spend more. When there are more people wanting to buy than people selling, prices go up.
Currently Australia is importing ~300k new permanent residents per year. These people need houses to live in. We’re not building 300k houses per year, let alone in the major cities where these people want to live. More demand, not enough supply.
Fossil fuels have zero to do with this.
Linux doesn’t do it, steam does.
You know why most cloud based services charge money? For stuff like this, because it’s not free to implement and maintain.
Easy and fault-proof password sharing and syncing needs software and hardware to do. You either set it up and maintain it yourself, or pay for a product that does it - like Bitwarden.
Many of us already pay for it because it’s an amazing service that we appreciate and are happy to pay for.
Not everyone is a cheapskate who thinks they deserve other people’s hard work to not be rewarded.
Anyone that doesn’t understand that companies exist to make profit needs to be studied at this point. You have to wonder how they even function in the world.
People don’t go work 9-5 for the fun of it and for free, do they? No, a company and/or customers pay them. Without that payment step there’s no job and there’s no product/service.
If you don’t think the company deserves your money, find another free service and use that until they start charging. Rinse and repeat - or just be an adult and pay for services and work that you like and use.
No one is being “sold out” lol. Anyone using the free tier has had a great run with an amazing service without paying a cent. Can’t complain about that.
I already pay for Bitwarden as it’s a great service that brings a lot of value. I’m happy to pay for it, and have zero anger at a company wanting to make money from their product.
Others might disagree, but companies can’t exist without making money. It’s insane that there are somehow still people that don’t understand how business works.
My work just started giving out 6 sponsored family licenses per employee which is awesome, so I’ll actually get to stop paying for it for a while.
It’s pee guys.
Colbert is finishing because it failed. It’s an expensive Democrat propaganda machine vaguely masquerading as a daily entertainment show.