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A Boring Dystopia
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Hundred years ago it was normal to beat women of they were out of line. Millenia ago it was normal to own slaves. It's also "normal" for the US Healthcare to screw over people who need Healthcare. Just because something is "normal" doesn't mean it's somehow right. Slavery was normal but then different societies over time understood that slavery is not right and it stopped being normal. Beating women used to be normal but over time we learned that's also not right and it stopped being normal. I don't know about you but I don't think ripping people off is right. However ripping people off has been normalized for capital owners (including land lords).
Nobody should be wishing for his demise (compared to Blackrock and its kin, who I do think should cease to exist), but at the same time he shouldn't be padded on the back for not ripping off his friend as much as he could've. What he did shouldn't be normal.
He didn't rip off his friend at all. He took just enough to pay the mortgage and save something up in case of repairs. That isn't ripping him off. That's doing him a favor since he charged him so little.
He could've given the rest money back to his friend after all the repairs were done. He chose to keep that money.
Yea, and if he had just sold the property in the first place there wouldn’t have been a house to rent at all.