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Remember when Mao executed landlords?
He seemed crazy at the time.
I mean, he was crazy, for that and many other reasons. It's not like all landlords are money-grubbing greedy fucks with no other marketable skills. I'm sure many could've transitioned tp normal work just fine.
... Though the VCs buying up entire city blocks of houses at a time? Yea, they can be strung up from the trees...
Do you truly, actually, believe that the reign of Mao was a net positive?
No, just that his stance on landlords may be worth revisiting.
Adam Smith was also anti-landlord, FWIW.
Mao wasn't even the one who executed landlords. He just never really cracked down on the pissed off serfs running kangaroo courts on the people who wronged them.