There's a lot of smug "well actually" commenters in this thread, who have completely missed that the meme is making a rhetorical point about the nature of rent-seeking rather than sincerely advocating for the sudden disappearance of all landlords.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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it's better to use the gender neutral term, more inclusive, please use landparasite
I'm no sexist. They can also evaporate.
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Thing is, someone owns those houses and it's certainly not poor people like me. Also we need more housing in most western countries and private entities are definitely not going to build it if they can't rent it out. We need to figure out a way to force public entities like the state to build more housing.
A communist (or similar) revolution might take care of it, but that's a lot more involved than "all landlords disappear".
Mortgage payments are often cheaper than rent. The barrier for poorer people to owning is usually downpayment requirements and credit. There are many reasons for the "housing crisis;" most stemming from real-estate being treated as a speculative asset or "investment," which incentivizes all kinds of phenomenon harmful to society.
If all those people that have money to build houses were forced to give it away (taxes), we the people (the government) could just build the houses and not charge exorbitant rent.
The hard part is how to actually make the government do that. And ideally without turning your state into a stalinist or maoist dystopia.
Such a paradox isnt it. We have declining birth rates in the west, yet somehow we have a housing shortage. Its like they deliberately drove down building to drive up prices.
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Let's some to simplify every person gets to buy only one home and this is only for them and their families to enjoy.
Now they still have more money than you. They just won't invest in a house but somewhere else instead. Now nobody can rent, great all the banks now get a ton of revenue for all that money they lend out because everybody needs to buy. (Making them insanely rich)...
Inequality is the problem, just peddling a simple solution like getting rid of one symptom is not gonna fix this. Also changing the system has historically done nothing in that way either.
Taxing the rich would. ;)
Landlords are easy to hate, but they are necessary. Having them paying high taxes and having strong protections for renters will keep them honest and contributing and the market balanced.
Let's start with some constructive work instead of hate flaming memes.
I would argue that being able to rent a house is necessary. That doesn’t mean we have to rent them from private landlords.
I would agree and add that companies are no option either. Can't have the state handle that though, look at the German rail and telecommunications companies. Utterly broken.
Best thing I have found working sometimes is housing cooperatives. "Wohnungsbau Genossenschaft". Which are incorporated as a non profit. But even those work only sometimes and only if most of the shares are owned by people actually living in the networks housing.
So let temporary accommodation be handled by the community? You don't need rich people to build houses.
Yeah renting is definitely convenient in lots of scenarios, like moving to a new city / area, don't have a job yet, don't know how long you'll stay, or you know it's temporary, like for college. Having to buy the house each time would suck, banks wouldn't give mortgages this easily, especially in a market full of borrowers.
You could say the same for every capitalist :3
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