I feel like this is one of the finer points to convince people of, and doesn't have as many resources to explain it to someone who's been indoctrinated in Capitalism their whole life.

    • zkikiz [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Even my good little old lady landlord whose dad passed down two properties to her which she rents out very affordably.

      But fact of the matter is she pays her rent and groceries off my rent. She gets to live a privileged sheltered life for no other reason than the fact she was born into a landowning family.

      Guess what, plenty of good, deserving people weren't so lucky. And it's a pyramid scheme, only so many people can own rental properties that then get leased out: if everyone did, there'd be nobody to rent. It's literally a case of the upper class mooching off the (very difficult, and during COVID, deadly) labor of the lower class.

      What do you call someone who never has to work a hard day in their life because their parents passed investments down to them? A trust fund kid, spoiled rotten, etc. For a culture that supposedly values meritocracy and hard work, we sure have a weird way of showing it.

        • zkikiz [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          I'm relatively liberal for a chapo subscriber (DemSoc / Bernie, not so much accelerationist and certainly no tankie) so don't count this perspective out too quick. "Middle America" values hard honest work, and landlords ain't it unless maybe they're doing a lot of moonlighting as property maintenance and management, letting their family/friends live at-cost, etc.