Have to disagree. We should be fighting against the entire concept of private land/real estate ownership and its use as a source of income. People like op definitely fall under that. The fact that the landlord in the thread doesn’t want to be convinced (and tbh some of the arguments people use aren’t great) still doesn’t change the fact that the other commenters are basically correct-
op is funding their nice lifestyle by extracting rent off 10 other households worse off than them and that’s somehow morally acceptable to them (whatever) and to wider society (utterly appalling). I believe housing is a human right and should be funded and managed collectively by ALL of society, not just the poorest classes.
This would also have the effect of freeing up poor people from having to scrape together rent money and letting them raise their level of consumption improving the growth of the economy.
Have to disagree. We should be fighting against the entire concept of private land/real estate ownership and its use as a source of income. People like op definitely fall under that. The fact that the landlord in the thread doesn’t want to be convinced (and tbh some of the arguments people use aren’t great) still doesn’t change the fact that the other commenters are basically correct-
op is funding their nice lifestyle by extracting rent off 10 other households worse off than them and that’s somehow morally acceptable to them (whatever) and to wider society (utterly appalling). I believe housing is a human right and should be funded and managed collectively by ALL of society, not just the poorest classes.
This would also have the effect of freeing up poor people from having to scrape together rent money and letting them raise their level of consumption improving the growth of the economy.