• MintyFresh@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    We could have co-op’s, instead we have profits. I wish you all the luck in buying your own home. But for me, where I’m at, I will forever pay rent to never own anything. Forever a second class citizen. All these apartments I’ve lived in with rents calculated not by necessity, but by what the market will bear. I’m pissed, and I think you should be too.

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        3 months ago

        The landlord would be the capitalist in this scenario, no?

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          3 months ago

          Everyone is, some are just in better positions than others.

          To me, this very much seems like a “don’t hate the player, hate the game” type of situation. It’s like companies not paying their “fair” share of taxes - they’re just following the laws. It’s up to us to change them if we don’t like it, just like the issue of having soulless corporations as landlords.