Comment on No one really understands our struggle
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoI 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.
SCB@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t understand why you’re getting downvoted. You’re right.
SCB@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Being right is its own reward.
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I guess, but the mass incorrectness still annoys me lol
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 10 months 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.”
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lol heaven forbid that someone should want you to have an understanding of what you’re talking about.
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Fair. I was thinking today he seemed more to be referring to crops
SCB@lemmy.world 10 months 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.