• TheCompliantCitizen@lemmy.ml
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    Owning 1 extra property and renting: Okay

    Owning apartment complex and renting: Okay

    Owing millions of single family homes and duplexes and rent hiking/price hiking the entire market: not okay

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      Owning 1 slave: Okay

      Owning a dozen slaves: Okay

      Owning hundreds of slaves: not okay.

      /s obviously

      /uj

      Of course slavery and landlordism aren’t identical in every respect, but they both are based on a parasite class doing no work, and extracting labor value from people who do. Large-scale vs small-scale doesn’t make landlording any more ethical.

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        Do you have a problem with public housing or are landlords okay when it’s the state?

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          Publicly-owned and controlled housing is the solution to this problem, yes. Then rents, upkeep, and all housing questions are determined at the level of public/political decision-making and not by petty tyrant landlords acting only in the interests of profit.

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          You support this alternative with completely a completely different dynamic and incentives??

          Another win for pithy internet hypocracy gotcha debatelord!

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            It was a reasonable follow up question, governments are corporations after all and they stated they oppose all landlord/renter situations

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      I wish people here understand this. It costs money to buy property, and so effort needed to be applied into buying one was done beforehand by being good with money. Rich people don’t need to go through this, and should rightfully be criticized.