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What I don't like is I worked 3 jobs during school, never went on trip and lived very frugal. I was able to save up and buy a property. I played my cards right and also got some level of luck and was able to leverage the first house to buy a rental property. I do my hardest to treat tenant with fair rent and safe place to live.
Yet on paper, I am a "landlord" and demonized because of some bad apples. I hate it because I worked hard to get were I am and now I'm a problem and don't want to just hand out my hard work.
I think there needs to be an asterisk on these things because I agree there is generational wealth and billionaires are a problem but damn if I had bought a couple of franchises instead and did well that way maybe I wouldn't be as hated.
"On paper" as if the material relationship is in any way different because you have a self mythology of deserving the product of another person's work
Not sure I follow? I worked for it. I worked very hard to be in a position to buy it and afford it. Some who can't afford the full price but can pay rent and still get to benefit of a home living lifestyle without needing to own. What's wrong with that?
There's a divergence here because some people expect a hand out, not a hand up. There are programs in some countries where people rent to ownership and I think that's what the government and other private companies should be doing. But I don't like being lotted in the slumlord scums.
No you fucking didn't. You may have worked to buy the home, but what you worked for was a ticket to be a parasite. So after that point that's what you are.
And that's what you fucking are. You want free money for nothing. Just hoarding assets.
Why the fuck would you be any different? There's literally no distinction to be made. You think the renters you abuse with the constant implicit threat of homelessness have any fucking patience to listen to your hero story? While they work without getting to keep the product of their efforts and watch you hoard it to buy even more free money?
Look man you sound like a decent person, but it's not really the point. The system, laws, the entire concept that enable owning property and renting it out are barbaric, even if some landlords do their best to be fair and kind. Some slave owners treated their slaves well too.
In my mind, I'd demonise you just as much if you owned businesses instead, for profiting from the labour which others did, and not you, if it's any solace. But I don't really believe demonising normal people is really the point either. We've all got to live our lives and look after our families and so on. I don't think anyone can legitimately fault you for that, it's normal behaviour. But we should really structure things so that it's simply neither necessary nor allowed for people to do either of these things, and anything less is fundamentally unjust.
For what it's worth, I'd like to add that I work a regular job still 50hrs a week. I have a single other property and don't consider myself a "landlord" because it's not my career or something I base my sole livelihood on.
If the government wants to make housing a human right and take it over with some fair compensation I'd be happy to not own. Property management comes with its own set of trials and challenges with horrible tenants, bad people go both ways.
Nope too bad off with your head.
-Some dickcheesed tankie.
Edit: Lol umad. Fuck them tankies hahaha.