I mean yeah, actually being someone's landlord *feels* ugly in a way seeing the money go up in your 401k doesn't It's a direct personal relationship, you have to look someone in the eye and know they're giving you money to avoid you kicking them out
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"It's not ideal but it's easy and comfortable and no one will even see it as a specific action on my part to single me out or yell at me for it I can just forget about it"
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Am I actually saying "Be nice to landlords so they'll have an incentive to be nice" Well, maybe I kind of am At the very least I'm saying there's a reason to make the distinction between better and worse landlords or bosses
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The counterargument is that by giving cookies to individual nice landlords you're enabling an overall exploitative system And I guess what I'm saying is... the system is fine with individuals becoming uncomfortable wielding that power, it's already evolved around that discomfort
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Like our society is already shot through with mechanisms of abstraction, if you want to make money from the fact that people pay rent without ever knowing the people or making any decisions it's really easy, and the shame-based discourse just guarantees that system will grow
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It's like the argument over small business I'm very well aware lots and lots of small businesses suck and are run by awful tinpot tyrants I still think it's worse for the country to have one giant faceless corporation be everyone's employer
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Honestly, even co-op is suspect in my eyes. There is no ethical use of homeownership within capitalism. All it takes for those with most resources to consolidate them by biting the bullet and become a landlord. So those that lack said resources will live with that low key threat.
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So unless that co-op lasts forever which none of the folk have any guarantee. There will be an unspoken hierarchy that recreates the landlord and the tenant just replace with unpaid labor instead of direct payment. The threat is just obscured further but ever-present.
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