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note that whenever I say huge amounts of wealth can’t be gained through ethical methods this is what I’m talking about

To explain just a hair more, if a landlord can use someone’s rent to buy a new property, and use tenants in a new property to buy yet more property, it means every person who pays rent could have also eventually bought a property outright and not had to have such a constant drain. But, no renter could: for lack of upfront funds, for a lack of access due to racism or ableism or classism, for lack of trust given by financial institutions, etc. Put plainly, a landlord contributes no value or service but uses someone else’s funds to compound a landlord’s own riches and get more human livestock to bleed, simply because of a moment of permission granted by more powerful groups. How many people are suffering and struggling to keep an ex-nurse afloat in luxury? What is being contributed?

Uh… I mean i understand where this is coming from but it really smells like reaching.

Slumlord implies that these people live in bad conditions. By law a landlord has to maintain the property and keep everything running and nice. That’s the perk of renting a thing, that’s the value and the service. You don’t have to maintain it. That’s the landlords legal requirement.

They have to fix everything that breaks like a appliances and fixtures in the home, control pests and so on.

I understand that this requirement isn’t always up heald. I really do. I’ve dealt with actual slumlords where my roof was fallin in after a storm and there were rats and mold and it was awful and nothing was being done.

I’ve also lived in places where our landlord is amazing and answered all my calls and replaced my oven three times before we figured out there was something wrong with the wiring in the wall and nothing wrong with the actual machines.

Also, they had money saved from a job to buy these places. Or at least the first place. And you can actually buy places that have been foreclosed on Really Cheap. Even if you’re not flipping them. You just have to do your research.

I’m failing to see why any of this is unethical. Prehaps gratuitous and not completely ideal but you can’t go calling someone a freakin slumlord on a paragraph of strategic information alone.

We don’t know how they maintain their business. We don’t know how well maintained their properties are and how well their tenants are treated.

I understand hatred of the rich buddy freakin trust me I hope every night that the people running Disneyland and Amazon choke on something hard and scratchy but It’s reaching. And it helps no one’s cause and it really makes an over all moment or idea of something look sloppy and makes getting people on your side difficult, if not impossible.

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Profit==Abuse

As long as she had fair prices on her land and she kept it nice, there is nothing wrong with this.

She doesn’t have to be a nurse to be valuable, fixing homes and providing living space is also a valuable thing.

lmao these people gonna be fucking poor forever and they deserve it too

crabs pull other crabs down when they try to get out of the pot

nursing is a valuable trade but it’s definitely not for everyone and it’s not a moral failing to walk away and do something else