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    212 years ago

    Hurr durr landlords bad, let me live on your property for a penny even though you had to spend money to create the acquire the property in the first place!!

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      92 years ago

      Ummm more like “scalper buys ticket first and now you can’t, then charges way more for it.” And “landlord buys houses first, now you can’t, and they charge more to live in it than you would have if you were able to buy it yourself.”

      They’re pretty much the same

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      62 years ago

      How about we compromise on paying them the cost of entering the land into production. Just cut out the “unearned income”.

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      52 years ago

      Nobody creates real estate, unless you’re talking about those artificial islands in Dubai.

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          32 years ago

          Oops, I used the wrong word. I guess that means I’m an idiot.

          LAND is land is not created, and landlords are charging rent largely based on the value of the land even though nobody made. Ownership of land is kind of bullshit anyway. It only came to be owned because at some point sometime took a piece of unclaimed land and convinced people around them that it belonged to them. All subsequent transfers of the property are therefore illegitimate as well.

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            32 years ago

            If you feel that ownership of land is “kind of bullshit” feel free to live in in a traveller always being on the move.

            I don’t support excessively inflated rent but the fact that some people here genuinely believe that renting out a property is equivalent to scalping or that landlords don’t deserve to get paid for investing capital in the “land” which they’re renting is the funniest shit I’ve read the whole day.

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              Whoooooosh.

              Believing something is bullshit does not obligate me to protest it in ways that are harmful to my well being.

              I cannot opt out of the consequences of everyone else believing ownership of land is a legitimate concept. Choosing not to make use of land other people claim to own is acknowledging land ownership just as much as buying or renting property is. And I don’t want to be shot or arrested for trespassing.

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      102 years ago

      Are you against roads?

      Do you use the sidewalk without paying a fee to a private entity that helped develop it?

      Housing doesn’t have to be a scarcity market. I don’t anyone is complaining about people who own a house, but people are complaining about companies and individuals who own 10,000 homes.