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the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

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I work in property insurance. We had a landlord whose tenant committed suicide which caused blood damage to the flooring. The landlord always called us complaining how angry he was at the tenant… For committing suicide and “losing him income”.

:mao-wave: no excuses here.

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Not a landlord (and no intention of being one), but if there weren’t any landlords, there wouldn’t be any rental properties, and the only choice anyone would ever have would be to buy a house or be on the street. I think we need lower house prices and less landlords, but the idea that a landlord shouldn’t rely on tenants as a source of income is ridiculous. For most private landlords, it won’t be their only source of income (but it is the source that pays the mortgage). What else should a tenant be other than a source of income (assuming we aren’t expecting landlords to be charitable institutions - which they have never been in all of history)?

How can you hold this position without vibrating out of existence?

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12 points

words words

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4 points

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8 points

Unable to even imagine a system that demarketizes housing

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Without a market what will prevent people from merely grabbing 2,3,4, even 10 homes? Some people may even start moving every 2 weeks just for fun!

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aren’t expecting landlords to be charitable institutions which they have never been in all of history

I don’t know, those landlords seemed pretty charitable under Mao’s rule in China… many of them even gave away their property for free after their death :mao-aggro-shining:

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Feel free to brigade these bootlicking bastards:

https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/pn9701/landlords_be_like/

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17 points

Gladly :mao-wave:

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The landlord should put himself in a fatal coma and synchronize their brain waves in order to be able to enter the coma dream world of his tenant and demand rent there. Just be aware that within his own coma dream, the tenant will be able to bend reality to his will like a god and if you die in the dream you die in real life. But that’s a risk you accept when you become a landlord.

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