• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I see, so the thing to do that would not be parasitic enslavement and vampirism would be to put someone else in debt and enrich myself by selling the house.

    You’re right, why didn’t I see this before? Profit over giving a friend a home is the right way to go about things. Thank you for explaining it to me.

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      No, the thing to do would be to abolish landlordism and ensure that no one is in debt for necessities. The USA currently has twenty million empty housing units and half a million homeless people. This is where your reasonable moderation gets you.

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        Cool, I’ll get right on abolishing landlordism with my… magic wand?

        But until it recharges, maybe renting houses to friends isn’t worshiping property like a god?

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          5 months ago

          Have you heard of revolutions? Tell me what tends to happen to landlords during communist revolutions.

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              5 months ago

              It’s not easy to start one, but it’s easy to educate, agitate, and organize, which is what I do constantly. It’s also easy to avoid expressing opinions (“why can’t I exploit my friend?”) that will put you in a re-education camp (at the very least) when the revolution comes.

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                5 months ago

                I see, forcing my friend to go into debt when I could give them a way to avoid doing that would be not exploiting them. And thus worshiping property like a god. Because if the revolution happens, I will be shot for helping my friend have a home.

                This all makes a great deal of sense.

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                    Yes, you’ve already made it clear that refusing to let my friend live in my otherwise empty home at what it would have cost me, making no profit for myself, rather than making them go into debt to buy a home and selling my home for a profit is the only way to get free from the capitalist blood cult I worship.

                    No profits is a cornerstone of capitalism, after all.