• Skeezix@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    To be fair this isn’t specifically a landlord thing. This is a capitalism thing. And it’s happening everywhere and every day. From your grocery store to your pharmacy to your university. The essence of capitalism is to exploit all opportunity for as much value as possible.

    This is the system humans have chosen to live under. And zeroing in on the landlord isn’t productive.

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      8 months ago

      Humans didn’t choose it just like humans didn’t choose feudalism. They formed over time as production and technology got more complex, meaning society is bound to change again and again in the future as well.

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        8 months ago

        Humans have chosen other systems, such as communism. Although that required action and effort, and those systems are arguably worse than capitalism.

        Either way, doing nothing other than bitching on line makes it a choice

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          8 months ago

          They are not arguably worse than capitalism when it comes to economic systems capitalism is at the bottom of the barrel.

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            8 months ago

            Well, I remember Russians standing in bread lines. You’re probably just finishing puberty.

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              8 months ago

              It is better to feed the poor than to not do so. Insulting the level of cognitive development of someone for pushing back against your statement is, ironically, childish behavior.