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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's funny that one probably-landlord downvoted this. You know who you are, scum-sucking leech.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's kind of a false dilemma to say everyone should do it or nobody should do it. There are a lot of things that would destroy the economy or even the world if everyone did it. I think there is a healthy amount of small family owned rental properties like the one in the meme.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's a simplistic statement, but it's not meant to be that broad, it's meant to be taken for this type of practice.

If everyone lived off leeching off someone else or from being middlemen, without producing anything, there would only be money moved with no products, labor, or services.

It's not meant to be applied to something like "what if everyone's business was just opening a pub?". The economy would be destroyed without diversification and many kinds of businesses. But being a landlord isn't anything like that. Particularly those that won't freaking repair anything wrong with the house, just take their checks and the tenant is on their own.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hey bro sorry, I need to pay my rent a week late.