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Blecher_onthe_Hudson t1_j2ogyxv wrote

Reply to comment by Ilanaspax in Has anyone been through eviction courts in the past year? by balaca40

Your idiocy and ignorance knows no bounds. Most of those "places to live" would not exist if those hated landlords didn't build and maintain them, in my case with those non-existent skills. I'd say move Communist USSR or China, but those places no longer exist, they found that Marxism didn't do a better job of housing people than Capitalism. Seems like Venezuela might be your speed.

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glo46 t1_j2p2jya wrote

Most of these "landlords shouldn't exist" crowds are people with the fallacy that quality of life would increase if housing were free because they don't realize that the burden of preventing a building from collapsing on itself, or preventing themselves from freezing when the boilers go out in the dead of winter, or dealing with irresponsible tenants who destroy the property, or dealing with the tons of other maintenance issues that arise with property ownership, would all fall on their shoulders.

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Blecher_onthe_Hudson t1_j2p87cj wrote

They simply have no adult concept of economics. What I can't figure out is why no one expects farmers to provide for free the food they grow with labor and capital.

The best I can figure out is this is a "cultural memory" throwback to the medieval system when "landlord" meant literally the man who owned the land that you built your house on. He provided nothing and thus had no expenses, and likely inherited the land. Modern rental housing is a capital and labor intensive business. It's not magic. I'd love to hear the Comrades here explain exactly how they think it should work.

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Ilanaspax t1_j2qp9n4 wrote

we just need Elon Musk to join this group chat and we got a real meeting of the minds over here 🤩

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