If you’re making passive income from someone else’s labor by leveraging the fact you own the basic necessities of survival, you’re not in the working class. “Lemmy” lumps landlords into one big group because there’s literally zero difference in the fundamental relationship. Mom and Pop landlords aren’t better than small business tyrants and the exact same bullshit is spread around defending them.
spoiler
Tell me you expect to inherit your parent’s house without telling me
Justifying rent seeking just encourages buy in to the very system he’s complaining about. Confusing assets with value production. It’s like a form of corruption that seems normal because it’s how Western society operates.
If you’re making passive income from someone else’s labor by leveraging the fact you own the basic necessities of survival, you’re not in the working class. “Lemmy” lumps landlords into one big group because there’s literally zero difference in the fundamental relationship. Mom and Pop landlords aren’t better than small business tyrants and the exact same bullshit is spread around defending them.
spoiler
Tell me you expect to inherit your parent’s house without telling me
So anyone who owns a rental property is not a member of the working class? What a fascinating world you must live in.
It’s a world you can live in too if you accept that words have definitions instead of just vibes
Justifying rent seeking just encourages buy in to the very system he’s complaining about. Confusing assets with value production. It’s like a form of corruption that seems normal because it’s how Western society operates.