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Lord of the Land (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Private property abuses the rights of personal property. It's my home, yet someone else "owns" it.

Landlords barely contribute maintenance when required. Might as well hire a handy person to be intermediary to any professionals 🤷

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[–] [S] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

bank and governments are already landlords - usually to owned homes as well

I'm not sure I understand your question, but I presume you don't got cash to buy a home - and therefore think you should need to rent.

Nobody should have to rent, hell homes shouldn't be a money commodity traded for profit at all. Landlords are part of the equation that made you unable to just buy a home. The cost of housing has gone up exponentially, across most of the world. This isn't due to less housing per population, inflation or just less housing being built. It's that capitalism feeds on growth and will create artificial growth if needed.

but tldr, there is no ethical living under capitalism

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I mean, capital still exists even without capitalism. Houses are made with materials and labor that cost more than rent and a security deposit. Even in the most socialist or communist ownership structure, someone paid for those materials and that labor, and that someone isn't a new tenant unless they bought the entire house with an upfront payment.

    I'm not sure what alternative you're proposing.

    I sure would love to be given the capital of a house for free, because then I could turn around and reverse mortgage its value and get significant personal gain from that.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Community builds housing. Society makes it.

    First off, yes a house is capital - within the current capialist system it's capital cost is completely disconnected from the actual capital cost.

    Secondly, I'm open to alternatives? I've got an option but a problem doesn't have to have a solution for me to point it out. That doesn't mean I don't understand capital.

    Here's an "alternative" people get their personal property. Secondly we give out empty homes. You can trade homes, hell even sell em but their value isn't the same anymore after revolution and everyone owning one.

    All the way down we have established communes. Communities that we partake in. Here we would build housing when new families need it. Community effort to make it in a fairly moneyless society.

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