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A Boring Dystopia
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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.
so why don't you go into some state owned land and live off the land in a tent?
according to your worldview everyone who owns anything and uses it to economic benefit for themselves is evil and wrong.
and yet i highly doubt you yourself aren't doing that on a daily basis, nor have you structure your own personal life in a perfectly just way.
Did you even read my comment? I literally address that exact point only, within two short paragraphs. I don't expect anyone's behaviour to be perfect. A way of organising society which motivates and demands people to behave like this is what is evil and wrong.
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.