Comment on Rent is theft
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 days agoimmigrants are wonderful and perfect and oppressed.
until they own homes. then they are evil oppressors.
immigrants should just learn place and forever rent and be miserable and poor so they can joint the glorious proletariat revolution! not be evil greedy capitalists who want to provide for their kids!
you are applying immunity to criticism of a persons actions, based on what a person is.
Land lords owning more properties then they need taking them off the market causes systemic harm. at no point in that equation did their status as an immigrant or not, have any bearing on the action nor the outcome.
Bro they are being facetious to make a point
they either were facetious to make… no point. or were earnest. either way
who determines the number of properties?
what if a landlord buys up 1000 properties and rents them out below market rates, is that systematic harm?
yea… most of the time the cost of rent is lower then there houses market rate, and it still didn’t change anything about artificially raising that said rate. you didn’t change anything about the problem at all!
immigrants should just learn place and forever rent and be miserable and poor so they can joint the glorious proletariat revolution! not be evil greedy capitalists who want to provide for their kids!
Immigrants can buy a home and live in it. There’s nothing exploitative about that.
If a person, regardless of their background, buys a property and makes profit off of charging rent for that property, the profit is extracted from the work that other people are actually doing. They’re leeching off of others. This is simple, it doesn’t depend on whether the landlord is a mom & pop landlord or if it’s a giant private equity firm. Every dollar someone earns that they didn’t work for is a dollar someone else worked for and didn’t get to keep.
spacesatan@leminal.space 2 days ago
Liberal encounters the concept of class status
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 days ago
what class status are you?
AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
EXCELLENT POINT. “Class status” is not anything objectively measurable. Wealth is.
I aspire to be independent. To be free to do art and sell it without worrying about food or housing.
FunkyStuff@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Class is objectively measurable. There are people who subsist off of sale of their labor, and there are people who subsist off of earning profits out of the capital that they own.