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The issue with that is that you're still making money on a human right. That property is gonna gain value and eventually you'll be able to sell it for more than you bought it for, all on the back of the tenants. Unless you're planning to give the tenants the house when they pay the value of it but at that point there's no reason for you the own it to begin with.
I'm confused. Are you saying people shouldn't have to pay for housing? For food? For electricity?
They're providing/enabling the human right. Why do you describe it as if they were making money off of necessity without trade and giving?
You are literally saying that your human rights should be privately owned by somebody else. If that's the case, why even bother with human rights?
You gotta separate the concept of a right from fulfilling them.
You can have a human right. But that alone does not answer how it is fulfilled.
The right is not owned. It can't be.
Yes. I would say people shouldn't have to pay for the basic necessities required to live. Why should anyone live with the threat of homelessness and starvation?
Because it takes time and resources and create and maintain housing... who will pay for it, and why is it the landlord's fault instead of whoever isn't taking that responsibility (government???).
I'm saying landlords are parasites and there's no way to excuse what they do as a good thing or necessary.
My landlord didn't pay for nor make the land my place is on. Nor the place I reside on. Yet he jacks up the rent every march as soon as he can, as much as he legally can.
My landlord doesn't clean the lots, doesn't clean the public bathrooms, doesn't do anything but come on by to complain about the lots he doesn't improve.
How he is providing anything but less money in my family's bank account, and an headache to everyone he complains to?