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Rent is theft (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by zedgeist@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 week ago

Every single problem with current rent could be solved by ... [theoretical solutions]

Just because things could theoretically be handled differently doesn't make landlords "thieves" as the title claims.

I'm currently a home owner and not a landlord, but if I would become a landlord, it wouldn't be in my power to implement any of your solutions, leaving in the middle whether they have merit or not.

All I can do is try to live in the system that exists, and in that context there's nothing unethical about charging rent to provide someone exclusive access to a property that I worked 20 years for to pay off plus 10 years to save for the down payment. Like, I'm just a wage slave myself and there's literally over 250k of my own money in my house ... why should I have to give that away for free? Seems to me that trying to take the fruits of my labor (i.e. the house that I worked for) for free is the thievery here.