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[–]Canbot 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Wow, that is the most despicable thing anyone can think. Imagine working your whole life, sacrificing vacations, luxuries, and time to scrape together enough of a nest egg to retire. Because you came from poverty you don't have the knowledge or skills or youth to start a business venture with any chance of success. The only investment available to you is either the corrupt and manipulated stock market or real estate. You buy the only fixer upper you can afford and put your blood and sweat into fixing it up. Into your old age you keep working to fix every little issue that comes up with it while your tenants, who decided long ago that they would never be such fools as to work as hard as you to maintain a property, carelessly destroy everything because they aren't the ones who have to fix it.

Then one day the commie scum convince your lazy tenants that not only are they poor because of you, but that you are evil for having the audacity to charge rent for the house you bought with a lifetime of work, fixed up with back breaking labor, and maintain with all your free time. And just like in Bolshevik Russia, they murder you. Having never done a decent thing in their lives they feel they are better than you. That they deserve everything you worked your life to achieve. That somehow their worthless, lazy, good for nothing existence is just as worthy of your wealth as yours.

Read up on history to see just how absolutely vile the "mythical" reds really are.

[–]Breadman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Buyer beware.

Just because it took a lot of effort to become a parasite, doesn’t mean landlording is suddenly morally permissible.

[–]flugegeheimen 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Parasites who want to take someone's property for free believe that charging money for usage of the said property is morally impermissible.

[–]Breadman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Your property is only your property, because the government says that it is your property.

Land isn’t created by humans, and so no human has a moral claim to it. Only a legal claim.

[–]flugegeheimen 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You don't have to create something to have a moral claim to it.

[–]Breadman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Depends on whether your moral system appreciates parasitic behaviour or not, I suppose