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All boiler-plate lease agreements have at least this basic phrasing: “Tenant will (1) keep the premises clean, sanitary, and in good condition and, upon termination of the tenancy, return the premises to Landlord in a condition identical to that which existed when Tenant took occupancy, except for ordinary wear and tear; (2) immediately notify Landlord of any defects or dangerous conditions in and about the premises of which Tenant becomes aware; and (3) reimburse Landlord, on demand by Landlord, for the cost of any repairs to the premises damaged by Tenant or Tenant’s guests or business invitees through misuse or neglect.” (This is in a lease form sold at an office supply store - i.e., a pretty universal U.S. clause.)An excerpt from a different lease document (an old Boston lease document):“---CLEANLINESS: The Tenant must keep the Apartment in a clean and sanitary condition, free of garbage, rubbish and other filth. The Tenant is responsible for properly placing all garbage and rubbish in containers provided by the Landlord.”So yes, if you do not maintain the property in a clean and sanitary condition, your landlord can evict you if you refuse to, or are incapable of, keeping the property clean and sanitary.I tend to believe that you have a problem with “clean” - landlords have better things to do than police your apartment for cleanliness - so, what has the landlord told you? And how many times?Did he walk into your residence and find dirty dishes piled high in the sink - but there’s still one (1) clean dinner plate in the cabinet so you still don’t see the need to wash the dishes? Trash bins in the apartment overflowing with trash that hasn’t been disposed of in weeks? The soles of your shoes stick to the floor because you haven’t cleaned up spills on the floor in weeks? If you have a cat, the litter box hasn’t been cleaned in a week - or a month - and the stench (to which you are “nose blind”) is so bad one needs a gas mask to breath in the place. — — or worse?Or are you a hoarder, and there is only a 3-foot wide path through your piles of “stuff” to get from one room to another?Yes, we’ve seen them that bad. And worse. And yes, you can be evicted for any of the above.If any of the descriptions fit your behavior, I would suggest that you go out and purchase an apartment or little house in which you can live with nobody bothering you about cleaning up.If not, perhaps you need to find another place to live with a landlord who is not obsessively “clean”. They’re usually seen as slumlords, and some of the damaged done by the tenants could give you nightmares. Such as a large black spot on the kitchen wall, about the size of kitchen table that you suddenly realize is moving - it’s not dirt, it’s a massive swarm of LIVE COCKROACHES.

Hard work? Definitely. Lucky? Yea, which was probably a more important factor.Currently I'm reading Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, where Gladwell does an amazing job explaining how most successful people, if not all, have been provided a very unique opportunity which they seized. The most successful people were in the right place, at the right time, born in the right family, and were willing to give it all to seize this opportunity. Let me quote Bill Gates' story from the book.Gates's father was a wealthy lawyer in Seattle, and his mother was the daughter of a well-to-do banker. As a child Bill was precocious and easily bored by his studies. So his parents took him out of public school and, at the beginning of seventh grade, sent him to Lakeside, a private school that catered to Seattle's elite families. Midway through Gates's second year at Lakeside, the school started a computer club. "The Mothers' Club at school did a rummage sale every year, and there was always the question of what the money would go to," Gates remembers. "Some went to the summer program, where inner-city kids would come up to the campus. Some of it would go for teachers. That year, they put three thousand dollars into a computer terminal down in this funny little room that we subsequently took control of. It was kind of an amazing thing." It was an "amazing thing," of course, because this was 1968. Most colleges didn't have computer clubs in the 1960s. Even more remarkable was the kind of computer Lakeside bought. The school didn't have its students learn programming by the laborious computer-card system, like virtually everyone else was doing in the 1960s. Instead, Lakeside installed what was called an ASR-33 Teletype, which was a time-sharing terminal with a direct link to a mainframe computer in downtown Seattle. "The whole idea of time-sharing only got invented in nineteen sixty five," Gates continued. "Someone was pretty forward looking."Bill Gates got to do real-time programming as an eighth grader in 1968. From that moment forward, Gates lived in the computer room. He and a number of others began to teach themselves how to use this strange new device. Buying time on the mainframe computer the ASR was hooked up to was, of course, expensive—even for a wealthy institution like Lakeside—and it wasn't long before the $3,000 put up by the Mothers' Club ran out. The parents raised more money. The students spent it. Then a group of programmers at the University of Washington formed an outfit called Computer Center Corporation (or C-Cubed), which leased computer time to local companies. As luck would have it, one of the founders of the firm—Monique Rona—had a son at Lakeside, a year ahead of Gates. Would the Lakeside computer club, Rona wondered, like to test out the company's software programs on the weekends in exchange for free programming time? Absolutely! After school, Gates took the bus to the C-Cubed offices and programmed long into the evening. C-Cubed eventually went bankrupt, so Gates and his friends began hanging around the computer center at the University of Washington. Before long, they latched onto an outfit called ISI (Information Sciences Inc.), which agreed to let them have free computer time in exchange for working on a piece of software that could be used to automate company payrolls. In one seven-month period in 1971, Gates and his cohorts ran up 1,575 hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe, which averages out to eight hours a day, seven days a week. "It was my obsession," Gates says of his early high school years. "I skipped athletics. I went up there at night. We were programming on weekends. It would be a rare week that we wouldn't get twenty or thirty hours in. There was a period where Paul Allen and I got in trouble for stealing a bunch of passwords and crashing the system. We got kicked out. I didn't get to use the computer the whole summer. This is when I was fifteen and sixteen. Then I found out Paul had found a computer that was free at the University of Washington. They had these machines in the medical center and the physics department. They were on a twenty-four-hour schedule, but with this big slack period, so that between three and six in the morning they never scheduled anything." Gates laughed. "I'd leave at night, after my bedtime. I could walk up to the University of Washington from my house. Or Fd take the bus. That's why I'm always so generous to the University of Washington, because they let me steal so much computer time." (Years later, Gates's mother said, "We always wondered why it was so hard for him to get up in the morning.") One of the founders of ISI, Bud Pembroke, then got a call from the technology company TRW, which had just signed a contract to set up a computer system at the huge Bonneville Power station in southern Washington State. TRW desperately needed programmers familiar with the particular software the power station used. In these early days of the computer revolution, programmers with that kind of specialized experience were hard to find. But Pembroke knew exactly whom to call: those high school kids from Lakeside who had been running up thousands of hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe. Gates was now in his senior year, and somehow he managed to convince his teachers to let him decamp for Bonneville under the guise of an independent study project. There he spent the spring writing code, supervised by a man named John Norton, who Gates says taught him as much about programming as almost anyone he'd ever met. Those five years, from eighth grade through the end of high school, were Bill Gates's Hamburg, and by any measure, he was presented with an even more extraordinary series of opportunities than Bill Joy. Opportunity number one was that Gates got sent to Lakeside. How many high schools in the world had access to a time-sharing terminal in 1968? Opportunity number two was that the mothers of Lakeside had enough money to pay for the school's computer fees. Number three was that, when that money ran out, one of the parents happened to work at C-Cubed, which happened to need someone to check its code on the weekends, and which also happened not to care if weekends turned into weeknights. Number four was that Gates just happened to find out about ISI, and ISI just happened to need someone to work on its payroll software. Number five was that Gates happened to live within walking distance of the University of Washington. Number six was that the university happened to have free computer time between three and six in the morning. Number seven was that TRW happened to call Bud Pembroke. Number eight was that the best programmers Pembroke knew for that particular problem happened to be two high school kids. And number nine was that Lakeside was willing to let those kids spend their spring term miles away, writing code. And what did virtually all of those opportunities have in common? They gave Bill Gates extra time to practice. By the time Gates dropped out of Harvard after his sophomore year to try his hand at his own software company, he'd been programming practically nonstop for seven consecutive years. He was way past ten thousand hours. How many teenagers in the world had the kind of experience Gates had? "If there were fifty in the world, I'd be stunned," he says. "There was C-Cubed and the payroll stuff we did, then TRW—all those things came together. I had a better exposure to software development at a young age than I think anyone did in that period of time, and all because of an incredibly lucky series of events."In short, Gladwell is trying to emphasize two very important points: the 10,000 hour rule and the future of that skill. According to him, if you have practiced something for 10,000 hour you are well off to become a master of that field, but you need to think about how relevant that skill is going to be. Bill Gates got his 10,000 hour before programming became super relevant giving him a head start. On top of that, terminals, instead of programming punch cards had been popularized, which made programming a lot easier, allowing it to be done more frequently. All these combinations helped Bill Gates and the likes of him become successful. At the end of the day, we should give them the appropriate credit though. They were willing to put the required hard work to become what they are today, and that is something that should be respected and admired.

Above: Civilians Wandering The Streets Of Europe After The Second World WarAfter WWII, Europe Was A 'Savage Continent' Of DevastationIn 1945, most of the world was more or less in ruins. Entire cities had been razed to the ground during the six years between 1939–1945; cities which were located in countries which had been widely regarded as some of the biggest economic competitors of the international market at the time:France, Germany, United Kingdom etc..Out of all the major powers to fight in the war, only one of them economically benefited from its outcome:The United States.To make matters worse, mainland Europe had only started recovering from the calamity of the First World War a generation earlier, which only served to make the Great Depression worse in countries who were directly impacted by the First World War (nearly all of Europe, plus some other countries scattered throughout the world’s continents).Contrary to popular belief, while it is true that the USA gave away a lot of supplies to its wartime allies, including the Soviet Union, it is NOT true that such loans were given out of goodwill.Above: Soviet Troops Resting In Front Of An American-Made Sherman TankLend-Lease: How American supplies aided the USSR in its darkest hourThe hundreds of billions of dollars worth of loans were repaid in interest over a period of multiple generations.For instance, it was not until December 2006 that the United Kingdom had paid back its last wartime debt to the United States; by which time, they had undoubtedly paid far more in interest alone than what had been provided for them during the war years. (Until the 1970s, the United Kingdom was also paying the United States debt for loans dating back to the First World War!)Above: Firemen Putting Out A Fire During The London Blitz Of 1940UK settles WWII debts to alliesBetween 1945–1970, there was very little economic competition coming from countries outside the United States.The result, was that the United States was able to monopolise the world market to its own advantage, while having to give comparatively little back in return (rampant inflation in countries devastated by the two world wars being another major factor during this time period).Above: Men Lining Up At A Soup Kitchen During The Great DepressionTop 5 Causes of the Great Depression – Economic Domino EffectUnlike the majority of mainland Europe and East Asia, the United States was never directly attacked (air raids on Pearl Harbor and a few island battles on Wake Island and Midway not counting) so its infrastructure was never destroyed.Imagine what the United States would have been like had the war boiled over onto the North American side of the Atlantic (or Pacific) Ocean, and cities such as Manhattan, Washington D.C., Los Angeles and Boston etc. were all reduced into destructive fighting conditions comparable to Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, or even Germany’s Capital, Berlin.Detroit is often regarded as the city that “won the war” as its population (which was roughly three times the size it currently is) had a large quantity of manufacturing products, notably those owned by Henry Ford and William Knudsen, which mass-produced military vehicles for both the American military, as well as its allies (with loan interest at hand).Above: Franklin Roosevelt And William Knudsen Discussing Manufacturing During The War YearsHow Detroit Factories Retooled During WWII to Defeat HitlerIn earlier periods in history, other countries had also become superpowers by largely profiting off the destruction of their neighbouring countries.For instance, the British became the undisputed power outside of mainland Europe as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, which saw the British being able to trade (and annex) foreign countries without much resistance (there is even some speculation that India was only captured so easily by the British because India had been recovering from a similar type of war waged by the Persian military commander, Nader Shah!).Nader Shah's invasion of India - WikipediaLikewise, the Germans expanded their sphere of influence within Central Europe, as well as parts of Africa.The Russians, on the other hand, focused on the annexation of Eastern Europe and the Crimea Regions — regions which had been completely devastated during the Napoleonic era — while also placing some of their political interests in Asia.Above: Napoleon Winning Over His Troops After His Exile From ElbaJust like what happened a few decades ago, these countries began seeing their undisputed influence collapsing within a couple of decades, once the countries which had seen their homes completely demolished, were able to return back to normal and become competitors on the market.When a country is in complete ruins, the country that is still in a healthy position can easily buy off their natural resources for what would be seen as pennies by the standard of those living in the healthier countries.This was seen in Africa and East Asia, where American companies shipped off their jobs overseas, because at the time, those countries were so far behind the rest of the industrial world on economic terms, that producing decent quality resources to be shipped back to the west cost virtually nothing.Above: African Child Performing Labour For A Foreign CompanyWhy Nestle is one of the most hated companies in the worldWhat is the situation today?China itself took a blow when many of those same companies began pulling out some of those jobs, as China’s economy is not as far behind as it was only a few years ago, which means that workers are going to expect more pay in order to have a living wage.The United States can try and delay the inevitable by shipping their jobs to Vietnam or Cambodia — countries which are still recovering from the Cold War era — though it is probably only a matter of time before those countries recover enough from the past that they also get their inflation under control and begin demanding higher paying wages.Many Americans have this myth in their head that the Reagan era, or even a more recent event, such as the Stock Market Crash of 2008, were the cause of American decline on the international scale.The reality, of course, is that by around 1970, the first noticeable signs that the USA’s supreme control over the world market was coming to an end were already palpable, as it was at around this time that the USA started having some of its first major financial crises since at least the World War Two-era.Above: American Troops In VietnamWhile the spending in Vietnam and elsewhere probably did not help with its economic situation, the more likely reason for why the USA started receiving more recession periods during the 1970s is for the reason mentioned above, as well as what I will say below in a clear and direct way:The rest of the world was recovering!There was an oil crisis going on during this time as well, as OPEC had boycotted the United States, though that would hardly have mattered only a few years earlier, as the USA would have been able to buy their oil from some other cheap country and possibly even invade them if they refused, in much the same way the Americans (with the help of the British) orchestrated the overthrow of the Iranian Government in 1953 for this very reason.Above: Former Prime Minister Of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh Being Arrested By Coup Supporters1953 Iranian coup d'état - WikipediaSo, the 1970s saw American economic setbacks when other countries were able to get a bigger slice of the international pie, which then forced the Americans to be more competitive in their pricing than previously.What did future decades bring about?Quite interestingly, it seems that the USA was probably making a lot of money out of loan payment interests from countries recuperating from the First and Second World Wars.By the 1970s, nearly all loan payments from the First World War had been repaid from every country which had borrowed from the United States between 1914–1918, which then coincided with the time period when countries were beginning to leave the shadow of the succeeding world war.Above: German Citizens Using Baskets Of Paper Money To Buy Some Bread CrumbsWhen cash was worthless in Germany after the First World WarRemember those stories about how Germans after the First World War were so economically broke that they had to bring wheelbarrows full of money to the nearest bakery in order to buy a slice of bread (during some periods, a piece of bread in Germany cost a whopping 460 BILLION marks)?Now, imagine a world where nearly every country — except the United States — is either in that state of being, or is at least worse off than they had previously been, and this situation were to last for the better part of a generation.This is the global impact that the two world wars had on the international market.Above: Americans Celebrating The End Of The Second World War In 1945If the First and Second World Wars had never taken place, it is very unlikely that the United States’s sphere of influence would have ever become anywhere near as recognisable as it currently is.Sure, the United States may have been regarded as a fairly strong country, capable of waging a potentially successful war against even the strongest countries if need be:The United States would most certainly NOT, however, have become so economically durable as to have half the world’s GDP when accounted for inflation, as was the case during the immediate decades after the Second World War.In 2008, the housing crisis struck the United States especially hard, and it was not so much because the United States was collapsing as a country, as much as it was yet another sign that the United States as a world power was over.Above: Lehman Brothers Sign Being Taken Down After The Company’s Bankruptcy In 2008A few decades earlier, the United States would have been able to get away with the types of policies seen during the late 2000s regarding their heavy debt to GDP ratio, as well as their policies regarding the cheap interest rate of houses.Immediately after the Second World War, tens of millions of Americans were practically given a house for free (this was especially true for returning veterans) and many of them received college scholarships or business loans as a way to bolster the American economy’s standard of living in the post-war years.If this was repeated today, the USA would completely collapse into a black hole and never see the light again.Above: Woodstock Hippies In 1969Of course, the world was different in 1945 when the United States was standing alone as the only major country to not have been directly impacted from the war.Even in terms of manpower, the United States invested only a small number of its citizens into the military (its neighbouring country Canada, for instance, had three times as many citizens in its military per capita during both wars).When you have trillions of dollars of surplus money coming from countries completely shattered by the war, mixed with trillions of dollars of interests which were expected to accumulate over a period of several decades, giving millions of Americans a “free” house was not that far-fetched.In other words: the United States, quite ironically, had become a socialist state — to some extent — though unlike other socialist states, the United States was able to afford this mentality during the immediate years after the Second World War.Above: This Picture In Chicago Shows Just Some Of The Millions Of Buildings And Homes Built As A Result Of Truman’s “Fair Deal” PolicyHousing Act of 1949 - WikipediaUnfortunately, this eventually backfired when later generations also demanded the same types of economic and employment opportunities that previous generations were practically given over on a silver platter.How do you say no without losing face, even while the economic benefits which made the post-war boom a possibility no longer existed?Policymakers continued to give the Boomer Generation benefits very comparable to what the “Greatest Generation” received during the post-war years.By the time Generation X came along, some of the more extreme disillusions, such as making housing a fundamental right, had been largely shattered, as the war generations were now ageing and were wanting their own retirement benefits, while simultaneously, the American economy was continuing to find itself fighting more and more against national competitors.Above: Ronald Reagan Being Questioned By News Reporters In The Wake Of The 1987 CrashReagan's Leadership, Too, Was Questioned After 1987 Market DropThe Crash of 1987 largely ended the era when people could expect to get a working-class job just by verbally asking for one, and expecting to be employed for the rest of their working lifetime.No longer did high school (or lower) guarantee a “respectable” working career.All of a sudden, Americans found their living standards somewhat lowered in the form of having to spend additional years paying for university (many states had free universities until as recently as the 1970s, though this was ended for obvious reasons).Above: University Students During The 1950sHere’s how much more expensive it is for you to go to college than it was for your parentsAs the international market went back to a somewhat more moderate level, university costs also did not keep up with the salaries of the average working citizen, which made even the cost of attaining a university degree out of reach for a growing chunk of the population, who were now being left out of jobs that their parents and grandparents may have been able to get without even graduating from high school.This did not stop the sacred cow of post-World War Two American society from coming to a sudden conclusion, however:Housing!How the Federal Government Built White SuburbiaAbove: One Of Many Homes In Detroit Left To Decay After The Economic Crisis Struck The USADetroit: From Motor City to Housing IncubatorDecline of Detroit - WikipediaMany people before 2009 could have bought a house on a hundred year term while getting paid below minimum-wage, as it was cheaper to live in a house with a stretched loan period which they had no intention of outliving, than it was to buy an apartment.Of course, not everyone who applied were able to get such generous mortgage terms, as comparatively fewer people in the United States were getting homes by the 1990s, while more and more were living in apartments: something which earlier generations, as well as the citizens of most other countries were living in.Since 2009, housing regulations have gotten much stricter.Above: A Simplified Statistic Of The Immediate Effects Of The 2008 Crisis (In The USA)What Caused the 2008 Financial Crisis and Could It Happen Again?Why it's suddenly more difficult to get a mortgageThe only examples of people whom I can think of who are still paying on such lengthy mortgage terms are those who bought their homes before the housing crisis forced a change in policy for future “home buyers”.I myself live in Canada, and while our housing policies were never as extreme as had been the case in the United States, policies revolving around mortgage payments are far stricter than they had been.For example, I personally know of people who had mortgage terms of 40–50 years when all they had was a 5% down payment (there was a time when even a down payment was not a requirement!).Above: Toronto Suburbs In 1961This is what the suburbs used to look like around TorontoSince the housing crisis, the Canadian Government now mandates that all house purchasers have a 10–20% down payment, and the maximum mortgage period has since bee lowered to 25 years, with talks that it might even be reduced yet again to 20 years in the near future.The age of “reckless” spending is over.Ultimately, what happens to the United States in regards to its role in the world stage will be largely dependent on the foreign and domestic policies it chooses to endorse.Above: Donald Trump Speaking About The Coronavirus — Another Likely Trigger In America’s “Decline” As A Superpower Nation