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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted BBC Wales News

    1/ Seeing lots of responses to this about "aww, poor landlords" / "tiny violin", etc. This is not just dumb, it is evil. Landlords are either small, or large / corporate. Many many middle class families are landlords, using rental income to cover mortgage payments.https://twitter.com/BBCWalesNews/status/1290342683572088832 …

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    BBC Wales NewsVerified account @BBCWalesNews
    It has been described as a 'real hammer blow' for landlords https://bbc.in/2ENt8sv 
    11:22 AM - 3 Aug 2020
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      2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        2/ When tenants don't pay rent and yet stay in housing, landlords are on the hook for all of the costs - the water, the property taxes, the mortgage interest, the principle - and the tenant lives cost free. The landlords either pay those, or default. If they pay them >>>

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      3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        3/ they do it by eating down their savings (if they're lucky enough to have savings), floating it on their credit cards, cancelling their own plans ("sorry, no presents for your birthday, Timmy, the government said that the Karen in the rental condo doesn't have to pay us")

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      4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        4/ Landlords are normal people - teachers, plumbers, artists, accountants, engineers. Maybe a couple got married, consolidated down to one house, and rent the other out. Maybe a family decided to buy a small house as an investment. I know TONS of people like this.

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      5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        5/ I've known more than one case where tenants had more income and more savings than the landlord they rented from! Landlording is an ages old working class way to claw one's way up from the bottom. Saying "aww, tiny violin" is cruel and evil.

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      6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        6/ As with most human cruelties, the first step is to unperson the Other. We don't think about Bob or Anne or Mr Johnson the landlord, real people who are going to lose tons of money, money that they have to scrounge back into their budges with overtime or second jobs. >>>

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      7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        7/ No, it's never "ha ha, screw the widow Mrs Smith", it's "ha ha , tiny violin for Landlords™" Can't very well beat up Jews or Poles or kulaks or whatever when they have names. Gotta unperson them first.

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      8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        8/ ...and if it's a big corporation, is it ok then? Who do you think owns "big corporations"? Normal people, to a large degree, via retirement savings, investments, and such. Maybe retired Mrs Smith doesn't own a second house - maybe she owns shares in a fun that owns REITs.

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      9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        9/ And aside from celebrating theft in the short term, what does this "ha ha screw the landlords" accomplish in the medium and long term? How does it alter incentives? You absolute God damned children. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

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      10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        10/ You're not just celebrating eating the seed corn, you're celebrating burning down the grain silo so it's harder to store seed corn over future winters.

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      11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted ego wrenna - 60k words

        11/ exactly expect to see two or three month deposits become more commonhttps://twitter.com/egocv/status/1290353110209236995 …

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        ego wrenna - 60k words @egocv
        Replying to @MorlockP
        Next year once the risk of this has been priced into rents "rents inexplicably higher, nobody knows why, landlords to blame???"
        12 replies 2 retweets 75 likes
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      12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Cristine Rice

        12/https://twitter.com/PstafarianPrice/status/1290358460391948288 …

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        Cristine Rice @PstafarianPrice
        Replying to @MorlockP
        Yep. The house I'm renting belongs to an immigrant family. They moved across the country for work, and their property investment is now a source of income. How dare they realize the American dream.
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      13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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        13/ https://twitter.com/lesmothian/status/1290360669578108928 …

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      14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        14/ RT @mr_archenemy back in the 90s i rented an apt in a 2 family from a wonderful tibetan family boot-strapping themselves into middle class from off the boat. (tho maybe not "by themselves" i suspect local diaspora pools money to stake new arrivals, which is also awesome)

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      15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        15/ I also knew an electrician who got divorced and, age 60 or so, converted his upstairs into a 2nd apartment to get some rental income to supplement his blue collar job

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      16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Danielle

        16/ 🤔https://twitter.com/dseddon91/status/1290373743143944193 …

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        Danielle @dseddon91
        A 15 part thread to say 'landlords are poor, actually'. No thanks. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1290353641245806592 …
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      17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted random_scrub

        17/https://twitter.com/random_scrub/status/1290373952812937218 …

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        random_scrub @random_scrub
        Replying to @MorlockP
        My landlord (until we bought a house a few yrs ago) was a little old widow from our church whose husband had assembled a few houses to rent as passive income to care for them in their old age. Anyone saying “screw landlords” is literally wishing ill to a poor old widow.
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      18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Kendric Tonn

        18/https://twitter.com/kendrictonn/status/1290374985517805571 …

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        Kendric Tonn @kendrictonn
        Replying to @MorlockP
        Long as we're sharing anecdotes, my landlord for two years of school was an Iranian refugee; awesome guy, electrical engineer by background, fled after the revolution. He'd immaculately redone a duplex + convenience store himself, to live/rent/work in. Great, great guy.
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      19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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        19/ risk taking is what adults do children don't understand that, I know https://twitter.com/SweetSweetBobo/status/1290407994996461571 …

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      20. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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        20/ Entropy does that. For the analogy to work all you need is for the incentives to shift such that people no longer invest in housing stock (e.g. via maintenance). https://twitter.com/thepoliticsund1/status/1290405590032887808 …

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      21. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted  🌵 SENATOR ONAHOLE  🌵

        21/ "making" ? How's that? No one is forcing anyone to rent housing. However, if someone wants to do the work and take the risk of the RE equivalent of maturity transformation - taking long term risk so that others can maintain their options, so be ithttps://twitter.com/lilspacecaseart/status/1290408305311932418 …

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         🌵 SENATOR ONAHOLE  🌵 @lilspacecaseart
        Replying to @MorlockP
        so the middle class is making the working poor pay THEIR mortgages and somehow that's supposed to be endearing? Hoarding shelter is what's fucking evil
        20 replies 2 retweets 24 likes
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      22. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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        22/ Spoken like a Nazi, talking about Jews. Or a Stalinist, talking about kulaks. Sad. https://twitter.com/miriksmit/status/1290409559006339075 …

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      23. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted bumblebreeze

        23/ the anti-landlord faction isn't sending us their besthttps://twitter.com/siberianpine/status/1290412997404512257 …

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        bumblebreeze @siberianpine
        Replying to @MorlockP
        Fuck all of you individually and as a group lmao
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      24. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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        24/ yes, clearly but this thread is not about landlords taking market risk and losing ; this thread is about exogenous and unprecedented harm caused by government putting a moratorium on evictions https://twitter.com/LiquidPanda_/status/1290411745434054656 …

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      25. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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        25/ nowhere in this thread has anyone said that anything is the tenants fault please read the thread before tagging in and arguing about what you think it maybe probably kinda says https://twitter.com/LiquidPanda_/status/1290414614958743555 …

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      26. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Decline Management Services Ltd.

        26/ This is interesting. I've got some socialists telling me that small landlords are unprofessional and bad at their job, and other socialists telling me that small landlords don't exist / are fictional.https://twitter.com/abandonnuance/status/1290417764864274432 …

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        Decline Management Services Ltd. @abandonnuance
        Replying to @MorlockP
        Makes sense you were awarded for fiction
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      27. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

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        27/ Government unpredictability harms everyone, rich and poor alike. The smart approach to keep people from being evicted is unemployment money, NOT arbitrary ad hoc seizures and transfers. This creates bad incentives. /shrug https://twitter.com/LiquidPanda_/status/1290418955044229121 …

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      28. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020

        28/ Is / ought rules everything around me. me: this is a bad policy with bad incentives and it OUGHT not to be done this way rando: yeah but this happens me: yes ... that ... that is implicit in why I am criticizing a thing that just happened.

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      29. End of conversation

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