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and they have the fucking gall to call us "parasites" (slrpnk.net)

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[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Or even honestly, the middle aged couple that was able to upgrade houses without selling, and lets their old house to a young couple for a reasonable rate because it's paid off. Which, in my rural experience, is really common. I am very grateful to a man that I didn't and still don't particularly like, because he rented me a nice property for a very fair rate. I could say similar things about other past landlords. The difference is when it's not an investment, but a business. Treating housing like a business interaction cheapens human life, and I have lived in that situation as well, to varying degrees. The worst was an apartment in Park City UT that was owned by some yuppies in Massachusetts, part of some sheisty lease/timeshare property LLC, where the building super was just a power tripping asshole with no accountability. I'm rambling, but Landlord Bad is too simple for a complex situation.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Or like if somebody inherits a house while they already have one, and decide to rent it out, that's fine too.

The private vs personal is introducing vocab to make a difference between 'walmart is private property' and 'my house is private property'. We're proposing that it's 'walmart is private property' and 'my house is personal property'.

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

ao, should people that live on large lots of residential commercial multi use zoning not be able to build a department store on the same property as their house?

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't see a problem with multi-use zoning or living above your store, no. My town has an immigrant family that's running a "department store" of various kinds of secondhand junk out of their barn, and they're not the problem here. They've got everything from used clothing to tractor parts, and I'd much rather have stores like that than having to go to Tractor Supply.

Sure, it could be done unethically, but I don't think there's any intrinsic evil about it.

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

but is that "personal property" or not?

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Let me quote from the first link stabby_cicada posted earlier in the thread:

Enemies of communism say that communists want to take small farms away from the women and men who worked so hard to keep them going for so many years and put small grocers, tailors and carpenters out of business and deny them an independent living.

Capitalism has already put most of these small operators out of business and made wage slaves of them, destroying their dreams of independent prosperity. Wal-Mart and Target routinely put small retailers out of business. Giant agribusiness conglomerates mow down small farms every week. Supermarket chains have wiped out the corner grocer, and corporate bookstores like Barnes & Noble are responsible for the destruction of small book shops. The few small businesses that remain live precariously on the edge of an abyss, with whole families sometimes working long hours to compete.