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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?

Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Especially those that own a couple houses as “investment”. Housing should not be an investment. With the big companies you could argue at least that they are also building houses, which we need since the government wont build enough. Not saying they arent parasites either though.

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IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Especially those that own a couple houses as “investment”

I agree, housing shouldn’t be an investment. But I also think utilities should not be a “for profit” bussiness. I think clean air and water should be a human right, as with food. I think UBI should be a thing, basically most of capitalist stuff should go away.

However, people in a capitalistic world we live in grew up and taught by society with the idea that everything you can legally buy is a legit investment. This isn’t really the individual’s fault, this is society’s fault for telling everyone its okay to use housing, water, food, utilities, healthcare, and everything else, as a way to earn profits.

Like I think we cant really blame any individual, but its the fault of capitalism as a whole.

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