So it’s utility maximising for renters, assuming they don’t get caught and the time penalty isn’t significant, to deface their property or those in their area so that the property is less attractive to others, assuming they don’t value the original state aesthetics of the property relative to the defaced state more than the price differential?
That is a lot to squeeze from four words. FWIW, they struck me as a snarl of rage against people who have more money than the perpetrators.
As a tenant in such an apartment building I would reply that nice white walls and a nice neighbourhood is the entire point of paying that rent, and that anyone who wants to live in a slum should go and find one, preferably a long way from me.
It’s not just the words you’re squeezing, it’s the medium — the fact that the words are written in graffiti.
I agree that a nice neighborhood is the point of paying rent, and your comment about people who want to live in slums, etc. I’m not sure that graffiti by itself constitutes neighborhood-not-niceness, but of course it’s correlated with lots of other things, and there’s the broken windows theory, etc.
To a poor person, having walls at all is more important than having white walls.
To a poor person, having a car at all is more important than having one with no dents in the panels. I don’t see that as justifying vandalising the cars at a second-hand dealer by night so as to pick one up cheap the next day.
But we’re working from just four words of graffiti here, from an unknown author, and the site where Google led me from the original German text is dead.
This happens in the context of gentrification. In a city like Berlin rents in the cool neighborhoods rise and some people have to leave their neighborhood because of the rising rents.
Putting grafiti on walls is a way to counteract this trend.
At least it is from the point of view of people who want to justify that they are moral when the illegally spray grafiti on the houses of other people
I believe the implication is “I am doing you a favor by spraying graffiti on your apartment building, because that will cause your rent to decrease.”
I don’t know if this is actually true, but that’s what I take to be the intent.
So it’s utility maximising for renters, assuming they don’t get caught and the time penalty isn’t significant, to deface their property or those in their area so that the property is less attractive to others, assuming they don’t value the original state aesthetics of the property relative to the defaced state more than the price differential?
That is a lot to squeeze from four words. FWIW, they struck me as a snarl of rage against people who have more money than the perpetrators.
As a tenant in such an apartment building I would reply that nice white walls and a nice neighbourhood is the entire point of paying that rent, and that anyone who wants to live in a slum should go and find one, preferably a long way from me.
It’s not just the words you’re squeezing, it’s the medium — the fact that the words are written in graffiti.
I agree that a nice neighborhood is the point of paying rent, and your comment about people who want to live in slums, etc. I’m not sure that graffiti by itself constitutes neighborhood-not-niceness, but of course it’s correlated with lots of other things, and there’s the broken windows theory, etc.
To a poor person, having walls at all is more important than having white walls.
To a poor person, having a car at all is more important than having one with no dents in the panels. I don’t see that as justifying vandalising the cars at a second-hand dealer by night so as to pick one up cheap the next day.
But we’re working from just four words of graffiti here, from an unknown author, and the site where Google led me from the original German text is dead.
This happens in the context of gentrification. In a city like Berlin rents in the cool neighborhoods rise and some people have to leave their neighborhood because of the rising rents.
Putting grafiti on walls is a way to counteract this trend.
At least it is from the point of view of people who want to justify that they are moral when the illegally spray grafiti on the houses of other people