BlackDragon comments on Rent is theft

[–] BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 6 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Of course it's exploitative, that isn't a question. The entire purpose of rent is to exploit. The down voters are people who recognize that it's complete nonsense to suggest housing rental could ever not be exploitative.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan -2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

The downvoters are probably people who have never owned a home and don't realize that it has its own set of issues that renting doesn't.

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[–] BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 1 point 9 months ago (5 children)

If it really sucked so much to own a home, the upper class wouldn't be buying as many of the fucking things as they could.

Owning a home is 100% upside 0% downside. You have your name on it and someone else pays for it. You use their money to pay other people to maintain it, skim the rest and fuck off to the beach. If you fail at this you wouldn't last an hour at a real job.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan -1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Sounds like you've never dealt with home ownership. It's definitely not 100% upsides.

Renting you don't have to keep $30k on hand in case you need to replace your roof or HVAC. Renting you're not saddled with an asset that you have to unload before you can relocate.

And the wealthy aren't buying as much residential property as they can because they find home ownership preferable to renting.

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