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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Bricriu 60 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I would argue that a live-in landlord that does maintenance work or acts as a building super is in fact doing a job.

Otherwise, agreed.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Building maintenance can absolutely be a job, which is wholey separate from being a landlord.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I think in this sense it is a little like arguing with petty bourgeois folks who defend capitalism by insisting that they do in fact work. Yeah, you do, but you don't have to be an owner extracting profit from other people to do that.

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

Not really, they're maintaining their asset, just like washing your own clothes isn't a job you get paid for, keeping your house in working condition isn't

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Washing clothes and building maintenance absolutely is labor.

Rent is far, far higher than the cost of building maintenance though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Washing the clothes would be a job if you were renting the clothes out.

[–] Chriszz 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The problem in my experience is that these landlords cut cost as much as possible, doing the bare minimum to rake in as much as possible. Barely maintaining shit, late maintenance, crappy construction even if it looks nice, nickel and diming left and right. It’s like this at every apt I’ve been at.