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[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Really? If I rent my house to my friend because I’ve moved to another city and they need a place to live and they get to cover maintenance costs and not have to go into debt with a mortgage, that means I support parasitism, slavery and guzzling the blood of workers?

Yes. How does all that blood taste?

None of that applies to owning or renting a home. In any way.

Okay parasite.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I see, so the thing to do that would not be parasitic enslavement and vampirism would be to put someone else in debt and enrich myself by selling the house.

You're right, why didn't I see this before? Profit over giving a friend a home is the right way to go about things. Thank you for explaining it to me.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, the thing to do would be to abolish landlordism and ensure that no one is in debt for necessities. The USA currently has twenty million empty housing units and half a million homeless people. This is where your reasonable moderation gets you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cool, I'll get right on abolishing landlordism with my... magic wand?

But until it recharges, maybe renting houses to friends isn't worshiping property like a god?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have you heard of revolutions? Tell me what tends to happen to landlords during communist revolutions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why do you think I would be able to start a revolution? Have you started one?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s not easy to start one, but it’s easy to educate, agitate, and organize, which is what I do constantly. It’s also easy to avoid expressing opinions (“why can’t I exploit my friend?”) that will put you in a re-education camp (at the very least) when the revolution comes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I see, forcing my friend to go into debt when I could give them a way to avoid doing that would be not exploiting them. And thus worshiping property like a god. Because if the revolution happens, I will be shot for helping my friend have a home.

This all makes a great deal of sense.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If I were you, I would simply not worship the capitalist blood cult.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, you've already made it clear that refusing to let my friend live in my otherwise empty home at what it would have cost me, making no profit for myself, rather than making them go into debt to buy a home and selling my home for a profit is the only way to get free from the capitalist blood cult I worship.

No profits is a cornerstone of capitalism, after all.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You’ve already made it clear that you are incapable of imagining a world without the blood cult known as capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I'm capable of imagining it, but it's not the world I live in. I live in a world where people go into massive debt if they buy houses and those houses cost money to maintain whether I like it or not.

But I will take your "helping friends means you're a capitalist vampire" criticism to heart and never help anyone again. Altruism is, after all, evil. Anti-capitalist Ayn Rand said so.