Landlords are by definition a bad thing. Everyone needs a place to live. People who hoard the necessities of life and loan them back to you are cunts, and need to be regulated into oblivion.
Everyone hates scalpers. That’s why it baffles me when there are always legions of white knights rushing in to defend house scalpers. I automatically assume they are all house scalpers who are desperately trying to see themselves as good people.
I agree with this, but I’ve always wondered what the solution is for people that do need short term housing. Like going to college or moving to a city on a temporary job. Neither is a situation where you want to buy a house.
The obvious answer is the revolution happens and property ownership is ended, but I don’t see that happening. So what’s the solution? And don’t say dorms for college students, those regularly charge 2-3x market rates for worse accommodations
I think there are lots of fair solutions whereby people don’t get to profit endlessly off people’s fundamental needs for shelter.
Do I think any of them are attainable without any kind of reform that landlords and their apologists would hyperbolise as a “revolution”?
No, I do not.
Pick your poison, but unfettered rentier capitalism is a cancer and it has to be stopped.
Landlords are by definition a bad thing. Everyone needs a place to live. People who hoard the necessities of life and loan them back to you are cunts, and need to be regulated into oblivion.
Everyone hates scalpers. That’s why it baffles me when there are always legions of white knights rushing in to defend house scalpers. I automatically assume they are all house scalpers who are desperately trying to see themselves as good people.
Scalpers only rip you off once. Landlords rip you off every week of the year.
Good point. Many people know a landlord personally would be my guess. “But my uncle John is a landlord and he’s nice”.
I agree with this, but I’ve always wondered what the solution is for people that do need short term housing. Like going to college or moving to a city on a temporary job. Neither is a situation where you want to buy a house.
The obvious answer is the revolution happens and property ownership is ended, but I don’t see that happening. So what’s the solution? And don’t say dorms for college students, those regularly charge 2-3x market rates for worse accommodations
@arrow74@lemmy.zip was this not the response you were looking for?
Edit: just more down voting! It’s almost as if you weren’t interested in dialogue to begin with!
I think there are lots of fair solutions whereby people don’t get to profit endlessly off people’s fundamental needs for shelter.
Do I think any of them are attainable without any kind of reform that landlords and their apologists would hyperbolise as a “revolution”?
No, I do not.
Pick your poison, but unfettered rentier capitalism is a cancer and it has to be stopped.