Comment on Rent is theft

• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  houses aren’t free money machines. they are very costly.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If houses were costly to own (and rent out), landlords wouldn’t exist.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      extract wealth from other people without providing any actual value in return.

      so a warm house , water and roof has no value.

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  • AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Whether or not I’m ignorant of a thing I literally just commented on, you’re a fucking moron for pressing a point as if it weren’t literally just commented on.

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      pretty much. the person you are replying to is entirely delusional and has decided ‘money is evil’ so therefore they shouldn’t ever have to pay anyone for anything.

      And yet I wonder if they go into the grocery store and steal food… probably not. it’s almost as if they are just rhetorically grandstanding to feel superior to us ‘idiots’ who think money isn’t ‘evil’.

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      • FunkyStuff@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Money isn’t itself evil. Appropriating surplus value is what’s being criticized.

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      • AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Did you mess up your whole bit in the first sentence? The person I’m replying to or the one you’re replying to?

        And apparently ‘money is evil’ isn’t something widely believed anymore?

        And yet I wonder if they go into the grocery store and steal food… probably not.

        I am fully in support of people stealing food from the grocery store if they can get away with it. Not even just poor people. Everyone should steal from the grocery store.

        I’ve been a renter, an owner, and a landlord

        A puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet

        but the second i got a decent income and was able to live in a nicer place and eventually buy a place, which i could only afford at first by renting out the spare bedroom

        Oh. So you used someone else’s money to buy something for yourself because you had the advantageous position in a society that deliberately limits housing so that it can be commodified. You both lived and worked and payed into the mortgage, but you were putting money from your hand into your pocket and he was just putting it in your pocket.

        Is your morality limited to, and inclusive of all law? Is it moral because it’s legal?

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