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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes. How does all that blood taste?
Okay parasite.
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.
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.
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?
Have you heard of revolutions? Tell me what tends to happen to landlords during communist revolutions.
Why do you think I would be able to start a revolution? Have you started one?
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.
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.
If I were you, I would simply not worship the capitalist blood cult.