• MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I read through until chapter 1 in that section you linked and he is pretty scathing of landlords and if I understand it correctly his argument is that landlords exist solely to soak up all extra profits above what would leave the tenant just enough to survive.

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          1 year ago

          I’d strongly recommend you consider reading the entire thing, because that is not his take at all.

          Consider at his time, “landlord” literally meant a lord who owned land, and much of the rent he discussed (often negatively) is shit like, charging people to harvest kelp near your house.

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              1 year ago

              Probably because he’s not actually presenting an argument, and is instead expecting people to read a 57 310 word essay. Oh, and if you read all of that and still disagree? “You must have misunderstood, read it again.”

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                1 year ago

                Lol heaven forbid that someone should want you to have an understanding of what you’re talking about.

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                  1 year ago

                  If you can’t simplify it enough to summarize in less than 57 000 words, then you don’t understand it.

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                    1 year ago

                    Also, some topics take a lot of nuance time to explain properly. Unless you think the concept of “books” is stupid for some reason, which I’m starting to suspect that you do.

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              1 year ago

              Fun fact: all unions are inherently rent-seeking.

              I say this as a supporter of unions - true is true. Rent seeking is inherently bad but the sum of the union equation is that they do more good than bad.

              The police union, of course, is also uniquely bad in other ways.