"hooks said that she suffered from patriarchy as a landlord b/c the men she employed to work her properties didn't show her the proper respect sometimes"
"hooks said that she suffered from patriarchy as a landlord b/c the men she employed to work her properties didn't show her the proper respect sometimes"
Not only is it uniquely vile, but it also is an exploitative relationship that predates capitalism, being complained about the lack of value added by Adam Smith within the Wealth of Nations, where he very directly says that the power of landlords has to be curtailed because they, more than any other type of ownership, 'love to reap what they did not sow'. Industrial capital is exploitative of labor, but it at least creates incentives to create a product, landlording doesn't even have to create a product, it just hoards it.