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To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?

Please explain your reasoning as well.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Unionized housing is also a great option, where all rent is democratically controlled by the tenants and goes towards enriching your lives.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's certainly a more directly achievable plan within the framework of Capitalism, absolutely. Still, ideally all housing would be publicly or personally owned.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Idealism is the enemy of material change. We can fantasize about a perfect world all we want but that won't make anyone's lives better. What does drive change is fucking around and finding out. Seeing what works, what doesn't, and then working off of that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm a Materialist, I understand. They were asking what the Morally superior option is, which I provided.

Public and personal housing is therefore the goal, which can be achieved by building up the Productive Forces and working towards it. In the meantime, unionized tenants can form an immediate improvement on their material conditions at no cost to society at large.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

And in this fucked up capitalist hellscape we won't even get that 😔