“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.”
-Adam Smith
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AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 3 months ago
“Predatory Cabal”
“Price Fixing”
Landlords are literally rent-seeking, they provide no real economic value to society.
At best they are opportunistic parasites.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 months ago
PanArab@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Adam Smit, famous commie
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Adam Smith is massively misquoted by libertarians and conservatives. He railed against landlords, corporations, and monopolies. He’s the reason we have the phrase, “rent seeking behavior”.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
And now they’re part of a cartel, which is not only illegal in the US, but illegal in international law. (The oil crisis of the late 1970s was thanks to OPEC price fixing. We’re still sore about it.)