I fully get the issues with landlords in terms of coasting off of other people's labor and in general being parasitic. My question is, the resistance I get when I say that someone shouldn't profit off of another person's need for housing is that they bring up grocery stores/ restaurants profiting off of a person's need for food. And I don't really know how to address or answer that. Just wondering if someone can close the loop for me!
Profiting from food is the key thing here. I personally believe there should be state owned groceries so people can get food at the lowest possible price. At a restaurant you are paying for a specialty good, not a necessity. You may still need rent and grocery prices, I dont think communists ever did away with those entirely, but they exist as a necessary tool to allocate goods. But a landlord profits off doing nothing but owning the land. You are paying a middleman who is incredibly inefficient at managing housing on a social scale. Landlording shoupd be phased out in favor of home ownership, state housing, and cooperative housing. They are all objectively better than landlording