• pascal@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I don’t understand, is lemmy flooded by reddit kids now?

    Comments here make it sound owning a house is free and doesn’t cost money to not make it fall apart (houses tend to do so if left unmaintained).

    I’ve rented for 20 years since I left my parents’ house and finally bought my house last year, with great expenses and time waste. I’m still wondering today if renting was a better choice financially.

    • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I’m actually a grown adult who works my ass off and is lucky enough to own my own home.

      None of this changes the fact that landlords are predatory capitalist leeches.

      Winning life’s lottery doesn’t make me lose all empathy and become an ignorant buffoon who abandons my ideals and the hope for a better world for the sake of all people.

      Mutual aid, autonomy, and horizontality – these are all beliefs that I hold for a better world.

      Landlords are making the world worse by exploiting renters. They are at best class traitors, but in reality they are much, much worse. They are actively making the world a worse place for other people. They do not “provide housing,” as some would say – these are the true words of the foolish child. Instead, they create homelessness and exploit the misfortune of others for their gain.

      Landlords aren’t alone in this, of course. Anyone who is an actual capitalist has to go. Either they will do so willingly and live, or they will be unwilling to abandon their position and perish.