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Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

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NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I don’t think rentals should exist. You could literally put a house anywhere a couple hundred years ago, and all you needed to do was build it. Now we have artificially stunted the supply of housing to make good little worker bees our of everyone. The threat of homelessness and starvation is a fantastic motivator to not rock the boat in society.

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woop_woop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Well, not quite. You’d have to have rights to the land to do that. Else someone could ride up and just take it from you.

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xtr0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

You could literally put a house anywhere a couple hundred years ago, and all you needed to do was build it.

I think you have to go back way more than a few hundred years for that.

In the US there were programs that kinda sounded like that but it was just the US government trying to get working class white people to displace native people.

In Europe wasn’t everything owned by nobles snd royals who demanded a cut of your labor? Could people just build a random house anywhere in ancient Rome or Greece?

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