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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah yes because it's not the landlords it's the slumlords

Because there's a difference /s

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One exploits the poor

The other exploits the middle class

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

there is no lower class or middle class or upper class there's only working class and ruling class.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is still a massive difference between poor people living in slums and people with comfortable, but not ridiculously high income living in a better area.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This is true, but only if you leave out the upper band of the comparison range.

It's like saying that there's a massive difference between the size of a rice grain and the size of a loaf of bread, but leave out the literal planet in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But there's a continuum of varying degrees of passive income royalty between the two.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any minute now the study on whether or not rocks are hard is coming out too. Big week in science.

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

There are bendy rocks, there aren't moral landlords.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Slumlords exploit the poor who live in slums, landlords exploit the middle class who live in slightly better buildings

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No true landlord would exploit the renter.

Those are slumlords. Which are mostly Scotsmen.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Water is wet, new study finds

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

There's the reason they call them BIG think. Truly next level.

But seriously is the study actually any good? Or the article?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

no fucking way

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

That is some crazy big thinking there, bud.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What? No...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Someone is a landlord and doesn't like to think about the exploitative nature of rent-seeking, and is feeling guilty about it.