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To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago by tkk13909@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?

Please explain your reasoning as well.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Landlords are landlords. Rather than simply guillotine landlords forever, it's better to have publicly owned housing. It's not really a gray area, the system itself is fucked and should be abolished, but exists precisely because publicly owned housing isn't widespread yet.

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't having publicly owned housing make the state a landlord effectively?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It can, but not necessarily. The issue with landlords is rent-seeking, if the state funnels all of the income towards maintenance, building new housing, or even lowering housing prices without taking profit, they have removed all issues with landlords.

As a landlord, their goal is to make profit. As a state, their goal is to provide a service.

[–] iLoveFishing@lemmy.today 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You have a lot more faith in the government than I do

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In a bourgois government? I probably have less faith than you do, but one controlled democratically by the Workers? Far more than any landlord.