...day, owning someone else's home is not a job. Arguments that you're paying the property taxes and shouldering the burden of maintenance don't change that because those are aspects of owning a property regardless of whether or not you're renting it out.
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If I don't get to claim owning the home I live in is a career then you don't get to claim it for owning a home someone else lives in. A job/career involves getting paid for the investment of your time and talents. Having a thing and making someone pay you to use that...
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...thing does not in-and-of-itself constitute a job. But there's a uniquely amoral aspect of being a landlord that's absent from any other kind of rental business. As an example, let's compare being a landlord to renting out moving vans. When I rent out a van to someone, I'm...
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...giving them temporary access to something they will only need for a short period of time. This is also true of rental cars, Blue-Ray disks, skis at a ski lodge, etc. The need is temporary, thus it is in the best interest of the consumer to rent instead of buy.
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By contrast, no human being will ever go a day in their life not needing shelter. At no point do you not need a place to live. The need for shelter in a specific area may be temporary, as in the case with hotels, but we always have to have somewhere to call home.
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Yeah but most human beings don't live in the same place for long enough to justify the cost of a home - the fact that very few of us can even actually afford the price of a home is why the mortgage market exists and is so central to our society
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And the vast majority of people who do buy a home sell it before they've paid off the mortgage, and do so at a financial loss once the middlemen are paid (a loss disguised by the fact that much of the apparent appreciation of real estate is just keeping up with inflation)
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@arthur_affect what are you trying to prove by saying this? That people with investments in real estate are just as economically vulnerable as the people who they would evict? Who are you trying to protect by arguing semantics with people who believe housing is a human right?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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I'm not some huge fan of landlords but "Everyone should just own their own home" is an obviously unworkable idea The realistic option to replace private landlords is public housing or housing co-ops, both of which take effort to set up
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"Everyone deserves a home that can't be taken away" being an "obviously unworkable" idea seems like a pretty strong statement against any current system... When the pragmatic choices means vulnerable people still die, you can see how people end up radicalized.
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A social right to housing in the abstract is a distinct concept from everyone being the private owner of a homestead
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I mean, look, having an absolute right to *one specific house* doesn't actually get you very much, if you live in a society where you have to have a job, and if the jobs around where your house is all disappear
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This is an actual issue in, say, China, which did theoretically guarantee your right to live in your registered homestead (hukou) during the Mao era, but this law became a dead letter when huge numbers of people migrated to the cities in the 80s for jobs
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