I just saw this post about landlords being parasitic. While I agree in some points - mainly that by owning more property than you need for yourself, you’re driving up the price for others who want to buy a property. However, I don’t want to buy property when I move. I don’t have the funds for it, and I’m happy with a rented flat. Sure I want to get my own property at some point, however I’m also sure I want to move at least two more times in my life. Buying and selling each time sounds like a lot of hassle. Also, I live in a shared flat, that just sounds like a legal nightmare if the ownership changed every time someone moved out. How does this fit together? Are there solutions to this that don’t require landlords to exist?
Why do some people never seem to understand that some people, whatever advantages in life that they have, whatever you do for them to help them along, will struggle. There will be some unfortunates.
Equally, there will be others who have shit blocking every exit and entrance, who excel whatever the fuck lifesgores them with.
We make a Gaussian curve together.
Those that succeed, however they succeed, will need to put their capital into something: companies, real estate, cash, art, whatever.
That’s why real communism fails. Communism consider us all to be identical, equally fortunate, equally able, equally chosen or lucky.
Not all landlords are awful, just as not all tenants are wonderful. Blocking all avenues of climbing the pole, to make us all the same, doesn’t also block all avenues of falling into the mire.
Why not put their capital into making people equally fortunate and able? Are you saying that ability to succeed is genetic?
It’s inherited alright, just not through DNA.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Communism doesn’t argue people are all equal in abilities: but instead it argues that people’s needs should be met, regardless.
This doesn’t mean we all should live in the same identical brick huts, either. We just shouldn’t be so barbaric that we let people starve to death in a gutter, even if it’s because of their own failures.