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[–] 19 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Landlords are by definition a bad thing. Everyone needs a place to live. People who hoard the necessities of life and loan them back to you are cunts, and need to be regulated into oblivion.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Everyone hates scalpers. That's why it baffles me when there are always legions of white knights rushing in to defend house scalpers. I automatically assume they are all house scalpers who are desperately trying to see themselves as good people.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I agree with this, but I've always wondered what the solution is for people that do need short term housing. Like going to college or moving to a city on a temporary job. Neither is a situation where you want to buy a house.

    The obvious answer is the revolution happens and property ownership is ended, but I don't see that happening. So what's the solution? And don't say dorms for college students, those regularly charge 2-3x market rates for worse accommodations

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  • [–] -1 points 5 days ago*

    I think there are lots of fair solutions whereby people don't get to profit endlessly off people's fundamental needs for shelter.
    Do I think any of them are attainable without any kind of reform that landlords and their apologists would hyperbolise as a "revolution"?
    No, I do not.

    Pick your poison, but unfettered rentier capitalism is a cancer and it has to be stopped.

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