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

Ultraleftism = above 90 percent home ownership in all socialist nations that we have reliable data on :)

[–] protozoan_ninja@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I was joking in response to OP's joke about guillotining everybody who had been a landlord? Even in China, where I think it was 4 million landlords got killed during the land reform movement, there wasn't an intentional policy of just reprisal killing entire classes. (No really, read the history of the land reform movement, it was absurdly violent but even then it wasn't "let's guillotine every single landlord") It's a silly concept and I'm surprised it needs to be explained that murdering entire classes at a time isn't actually the point of revolutionary violence, but hey, it's Lemmy!