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if being a landlord is stuch an unthankful job. get a real job
Being a landlord can be a real job - if you have enough properties to manage, there are endless repairs or grievances to deal with. There's government regulations, there's tenant vetting and legal stuff. I wouldn't want to a landlord because I would hate to deal with people complaining over stupid shit, not paying their rent on time, etc. But we really do need landlords or else there wouldn't be any way to rent an apartment. And many people can't afford to buy a house.
"We need dragons because knights need to kill something!"
That's what you just said. If people can't afford housing then the economy needs to be adjusted. This wasn't an issue anywhere in the world before capitalism. Prior to capitalism there were poor people, but if they needed a house they just built one on the commons as a community for the person in need.
So the dragons are housing and the landlords are the knights? But we really do need housing, so you're analogy doesn't make sense.
And of course it's been a problem before capitalism. There's often been times when there aren't enough resources to house everyone regardless of societal organization. And yes, a reorganization or at least a major adjustment of our current is needed. But just throwing landlords out doesn't make sense. If we banned renting out houses and apartments today, there'd be a shit ton of people without somewhere to live.
If all we did was to ban landlords there would be no homeless people in the US, or I suspect any developed country, as the ratio of homes that have sat empty for more than one year to homeless people is currently about 35:1 in the US. These homes are everywhere in every major city and small town.
If we went a step further, we could be like 3 of the literal poorest former Soviet block Eastern European countries where 92% of the population lives in extremely nice government housing where the rent is capped at something like 2-5% of your monthly income.
Oh and you got it backwards. The housing is the knights. The landlords are the imaginary thing we do not need
If there are empty houses because that currently makes financial sense to sit on the real estate without renting, then if we banned landlords, presumably all that housing would then sit empty. All the homeless would-be renters would now have to find money to buy. Maybe the government would back their 99% mortgage. And the ex-landlord house owners sitting with those houses would wait to sell at a decent price.
Or we just go full communism regarding housing and the government becomes the landlord dragon who doesn't charge much, but doesn't have enough money to upkeep the apartments.
Nope. Don't need to buy those houses are now freed up as government housing. Capitalism is a disease that will kill us all because of people like you that have been so infected you can't see any way to help your neighbors.
Some of my neighbors are landlords. If you are going to steal their investment properties from them, they will be screwed as they've been putting all their money into that as a retirement plan. Why would you want to destroy these people who have worked hard all their lives?
He says unironically while justifying milking millions of hard working people of housing that should be theirs.
If your neighbours were given the opportunity to work hard to own their property why shouldn't the renters?
Nothings stopping the renters from getting a mortgage and buying their own house. Except if they can't afford the down payment or are too much of a risk for the bank - and in that case, the landlords are providing a very important service to them - without which they'd be on the streets.
Some of my friends are intestinal parasite, if you take them out of their host they'll be screwed.
If you're retirement plan is fucking over people, then I hope you starve in your retirement.
IE, it's a real job if you hoard a key necessity for life so you can leech of working people's wages.
if you think being a parasite is a lot of work get a real job.