For the record, this includes the “nice” landlord in your family who’s “one of the good ones.” We’re actually coming for them first just so you stop posting pro-landlord propaganda.
For the record, this includes the “nice” landlord in your family who’s “one of the good ones.” We’re actually coming for them first just so you stop posting pro-landlord propaganda.
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“I’m as anarchist as they come”
defends the existence of landlords
It’s the exact same argument as with cops, I don’t see how you can come to a different conclusion. Individually they might be courteous, but they choose to be part of a fundamentally unethical system and their very existence is an injustice.
The people aren’t unethical, their actions are. They can knock that shit* off at any time. Then they’re just regular people. People aren’t their professions.
It’s why “blue lives matter” is so offensive. There are no blue lives. No one is born blue.
* edit: By “knock that shit off” I mean they can quit their jobs. I don’t mean, they can be an ethical cop or landlord. Systemically, most things we use cops for should be other kinds of service workers, and I can’t wrap my head around how it would ever be better to have a landlord than to own the dwelling yourself.
This mindset has really had a positive impact on how I view my neighbors and the clients I serve. It should be a freeing thought because even though it shows us people are choosing to do ill, they can just as easily choose to do well. It’s helped me overcome some of the Puritanical notions of inherent good and evil I’ve had forced on me my entire life while not excusing bad actions.
I know someone who was a terrible ancap 4channer who made a complete 180 once he stepped outside his basement and started interacting with non-white and queer people.
Everyone has a choice, and it’s never too late to start.
There’s only two situations that I can think of, and one of them kind of only exists on paper.
One is that some people genuinely want to be a bit more nomadic and not be as tied to one place. Getting to the point of signing a lease does take time, but not nearly as much time as closing on a property, so some folks want to rent because it provides them a bit more freedom of movement. I tend to believe this group is very small compared to the genealogy population.
The other is that people will say “oh when you rent you aren’t responsible for maintenance/ repairs/ upkeep because you don’t own the property so you don’t have to deal with those things.” This is true on paper I think, but a lot of places allow lease agreements to shift some of that responsibility back on to the renter, and I’m sure most renters will have plenty of experiences where something breaks and then they have to fight with their landlord for ages and then nothing gets done so they end up just saying fuck it and fix the damn thing themselves so they can just go on living their lives.
Had this happen when my lock broke. The landlord’s response was, “Don’t worry, it’s a safe neighborhood” when the super was a creep who drank blue maui in his car with middle school girls, and I caught multiple people peeping in windows. Bought a lock and installed it myself, and when I moved I put the broken lock back on the door and took it with me.
It was a one-liner joke. You’re not wrong at all, but it was just a single sentence that encapsulated both ideals. It didn’t warrant an exposition.