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To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?

Please explain your reasoning as well.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

What if you need to move interstate for work for a year. Are you meant to sell your house? And incur all the selling and buying costs? Are you meant to leave it vacant for a year? Or are you meant to let people stay in it for free?

It makes sense to rent it out for the year, and rent yourself in the other state.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

You're right; lots of shitty edge cases exist. If you are trading 1 for 1 it's not the core issue.

[–] Phegan 1 points 8 months ago

The long term solution to this is high quality public housing allowing people to move when needed. It's a bit of a pipe dream in our current world, but if we are talking edge cases, I can be idealistic.

Ownership isn't for everyone, that's okay, but profiting from a basic need for another human, shelter, is immortal. We should be a society that provides basic needs to people without allowing others to exploit them for profit.

I am not saying everyone must own, and you can't rent, but it's the profiteering I have a problem with, not the need for someone to live or move.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Be careful with this dangerous logic. You’ll get pitchforked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This is the internet, absolutes or gtfo!