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since a lot of people here are confused about landlords, here is why landlords are not antiwork

I am pretty sure almost everyone here is not quite happy with their job, or at least the current state of the whole “people having to work shitty jobs” situation. Because we are always underpaid for what we bring to our boss, because sometimes the wage is not even a living wage, because a lot of us have to work pretty much all the time, because all of this time we spend working is not time we spend taking care of ourselves, our family, our friends, and doing stuff that makes us happy. If we hate working so much, why don't we stop doing it then? Because we need to pay for food and housing and healthcare and yada yada. Why do we need to pay for those things that we literally cannot live without? Because some people are literally keeping them from us for their own profit. Landlords, for…


I am pretty sure almost everyone here is not quite happy with their job, or at least the current state of the whole “people having to work shitty jobs” situation. Because we are always underpaid for what we bring to our boss, because sometimes the wage is not even a living wage, because a lot of us have to work pretty much all the time, because all of this time we spend working is not time we spend taking care of ourselves, our family, our friends, and doing stuff that makes us happy.

If we hate working so much, why don't we stop doing it then?

Because we need to pay for food and housing and healthcare and yada yada.

Why do we need to pay for those things that we literally cannot live without?

Because some people are literally keeping them from us for their own profit.

Landlords, for example, profit from directly stopping us from having a stable home. If we have to work this much, it's because they literally keep houses they don't live in so that people can't have them, and then charge them for living in them and thus not being homeless and die in the streets.

They literally create homelessness by forbidding people to have their own house for free, they keep us and our children from having a secure home that no one can call the cops to evict us from if we are too poor to pay for it.

“But that means that in your opinion people should be able to have a place to live for free?”

Yes, I think that such basic necessities should not be kept from us for the personal profit of a minority. I don't care that your girlfriend's classmate's uncle is a “good landlord” because he repaired the sink and is chill with the rent deadline, he should not be able to be a landlord, and that is not linked to the fact that he is good or evil or whatever.

Wage slavery will not end as long as there is landlords, or food companies, or pharmaceutical companies or anyone profiting from people being homeless or starving or dying of curable diseases.

Tldr, landlords profit from us working and therefore, cannot be antiwork

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