• MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    yes haha funny but the conditions are clearly different, this guy owns one property compared to a farmstead with acres and slaves and the ability to kill or take your daughter’s with impunity. If the state dispossessed the guy of his home to give him an actual social safety plan it would be completely fine.

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      1 year ago

      So, in the meantime, it’s cool that the burden of paying for this man’s retirement plan is placed onto the proletarians who pay the rent? hasan-ok-dude

      If a homeless person were suddenly gifted the deed to a house, would it be okay if they started renting it out for passive income? After all, there’s no social safety net, and this is the one opportunity they’ve been granted to gain stability. What are they supposed to do? Not take advantage of that? Call me a utopian, but yeah, they shouldn’t.

      Renting out a property simply shifts the burden that you take onto the less fortunate. It’s a fundamentally capitalist act. I’m not sorry for being a dick to this old man. If he planned to retire using the funds siphoned from people simply seeking shelter, he should have understood the inherent risks that come with such a plan and the burden he has thus shifted over to his tenants.

      Finding yourself oppressed in a capitalist system is not some magical moral hand-wave that allows you to conscientiously take up the position of the oppressor. Is he a victim of circumstance? Maybe. Sucks for him. Shouldn’t have staked his retirement on landlordism shrug-outta-hecks

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        for me, it depends if the homeless person is capable of other work

        I’ll just leave it at personally it’s not something I would be able to do unless the old man was a truly vile human.