brygphilomena, can I have your full name, address, social security number, and mother’s maiden name?

You forgot the magic word.

Yes.

US went so far as to bring down a sovereign nations Presidential plane to search it for Snowden.

I wonder if Morales got any concessions for agreeing to land his plane and allow a search.

Nope. The US government should just create its own uncounterfeitable, energy efficient digital dollar. Put Bitcoin out of business.

Yes. It’s when the workers are driven to the point that they cannot do enough reproductive labor and/or they revolt.

Not sure what you mean, but pitting enemies against each other is also an option.

Rental income is just a dividend on a real estate investment. Even if you own the house you live in, you get that dividend in the form of not having to pay rent to a landlord.

Just one sock of the pair is discolored? Maybe try washing the just the other sock with some poopy underwear to make it browner so the pair matches again.

Maybe it will be some consolation for you to remember that you and your coworker have a common adversary: your employer. If you find yourself taking your ignorant coworker’s bait, you can try constructively twisting it or redirecting her complaints against the ownership.

Bon appétit!

I’m sorry if you feel offended, but I’m using this terminology objectively. I do not believe that being a landlord automatically makes someone a bad person. However, landlordism is an harmful feature of our predominant mode of production. It relies on the prevalence of homelessness as a credible threat, after all.

Your list of anecdotal bad experiences people have had with landlords is utterly immaterial to the discussion of whether landlording is definitionally unethical.

I don’t think I listed any anecdotes. You expressed interest in emotional reasoning as to why people resent landlords so I copied some examples of it that I had already written. The ethicality of being a landlord isn’t relevant to the economic role of landlords as parasites.

The rental income that a landlord collects is not a wage based on any labor that they do.

First of all, how is that true?

The fact that landlord’s do not collect rent based on any labor that they do hasn’t been in question since Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations at the latest. Rental income is also known as passive or unearned income. That’s the appeal of it to landlords or prospective landlords. It’s an established concept. Even if you think that residential rental agreements are perfectly free and voluntary, that’s irrelevant to the fact that landlords do not produce or provide anything.

I didn’t throw anything back at you. I’m checking in with you to see if you’re still having trouble and, if so, where.

You won’t understand the solution until you understand the problem. I’ve already explained to you how landlords are parasitic. For similar reasons so are employers and land owners. The wealth they accumulate as owners of private property is not from any labor that they do themselves, but rather the labor of workers. To be clear, I’m not using the term parasitic pejoratively. I’m just being objective. Yes, workers produce housing today because that is how housing is produced, but landlords and their ilk are just overhead to housing production. If you still don’t understand, then please explain why you think that landlords are indispensable.

You are referring to private employers and landowners who are also parasitic and non-essential to housing production.

The answer, which should be obvious, is that workers produce housing. How do you insert landlords into that process in a way that isn’t parasitic?

“How is house made?” You think landlords are necessary or helpful to housing production? How can that be if they are fundamentally parasitic?

Lol I don’t know what you mean by “the Adjuster” and the main-est-stream news media I regularly listen to is Democracy Now!, so I didn’t know that a narrative is being blitzed. I’ve read some posts suggesting that it’s all a plot to cover up insider trading, but that idea seems a little too complicated and unlikely.

I haven’t talked about it very much with people off line, but when I have no one has had anything sympathetic to say about the victim or unsympathetic to say about the alleged assassin. The women I’ve discussed the case with agree that this Luigi guy is handsome. Idk fellas, I hate to do him like this, but we might be better off if he stays locked up.

It’s not emotional reasoning. The rental income that a landlord collects is not a wage based on any labor that they do. It is a dividend on a real estate investment. The crucial mechanism to a rental property investment is the license to withhold or take away housing from people. That’s what makes landlordism extractive and parasitic. Landlords simply do not provide housing. They capture it and extort people for temporary permission to live in it.

If you want some emotional reasoning as to why people resent landlords, here’s a short list I wrote from a similar thread:

• Almost everyone has had or knows someone who’s had to deal with an especially neglectful or difficult landlord;
• landlords have been engaging in notoriously greedy and abusive behavior since the industrial revolution;
• landlords aren’t doing themselves any favors they way some of them publicly brag and whine about being landlords;
• and there’s just something that isn’t right about owning someone else’s home and probably everyone has some faint sense of that.