Comment on No one really understands our struggle

• MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I read through until chapter 1 in that section you linked and he is pretty scathing of landlords and if I understand it correctly his argument is that landlords exist solely to soak up all extra profits above what would leave the tenant just enough to survive.

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d strongly recommend you consider reading the entire thing, because that is not his take at all.

    Consider at his time, “landlord” literally meant a lord who owned land, and much of the rent he discussed (often negatively) is shit like, charging people to harvest kelp near your house.

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    • Cruxifux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t understand why you’re getting downvoted. You’re right.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Being right is its own reward.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Probably because he’s not actually presenting an argument, and is instead expecting people to read a 57 310 word essay. Oh, and if you read all of that and still disagree? “You must have misunderstood, read it again.”

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    • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fair. I was thinking today he seemed more to be referring to crops

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Fun fact: all unions are inherently rent-seeking.

        I say this as a supporter of unions - true is true. Rent seeking is inherently bad but the sum of the union equation is that they do more good than bad.

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