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      4 months ago

      I’m down with anything. The point is that your rent is not high because Bob has two houses. It’s because the real estate speculators own five thousand.

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          4 months ago

          Bob is not the enemy, Bob is a lucky retiree.

          Berkshire Hathaway and their 500k rental properties, are the enemy.

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            4 months ago

            Both/neither of them are the enemy. The enemy is the system that allows anyone to profit off owning homes.

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      4 months ago

      To be fair, everyone doesnt want to own housing all rhe time (say you study somewhere for a year for example, you might want to rent. Or when you try out anew city) so some landlording is needed. We don’t need landlords having lots of homes though.

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        Landlording should never be done for profit. Socialize the fuck out of it. My water, electricity and healthcare is socialized, why do parasites profit off my home?

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          Profit, profit, I’d say reasonable profit and mandatory standards.

          For example, when I lived in sweden I knew a landlord, he was stopping because you beeded around 50 appartments (might be inflated from his side, but in many countries you can live off of 2 so …) to make a decent salary.

          In sweden you cant rent out a shitty appartment, you cant set the rent as you like it, and youre taxed etc. etc.

          I mean it should be like a normal job, not granting you robber rights.