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| Topic | NYC landlords: "we can't breathe" |
| averagejoel 05/09/20 9:58:57 AM #155: | nemu posted... The point is that all trade is exploitative on a fundamental level,again, this needs a lot more justification than "you must live your live in a 1000AD village" so the basic function of landlords is no more exploitative than anything else.believe it or not, humans do many things that do not, in and of themselves, involve turning a profit. those things are less exploitative than actions that do turn a profit. for example, wage labour turns a profit for the company. that company is exploiting the worker by turning a profit. the worker is not exploiting the company by making them money; the worker is the one being exploited. the relationship between landlord and tenant works the same way What's exploitative is the seeking of maximum profit to the point where the product or service is degraded, such as scummy landlords who rent gouge, put no maintenance into the buildings, etc.landlords being better or worse than other landlords is completely irrelevant. the position itself is exploitative luck living in bizarro communist world.??? I don't live in a communist world. right now I'm just describing the capitalist one as best I can --- peanut butter and dick ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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