Since I am from a Europoor country, I don't have a lot of experience with landlordism, but from all that I understand it doesn't seem at all amoral or bad (well at least more amoral and bad than everything else under capitalism). I mean, the basic concept of being a landlord is no different than running a grocery store: one provides the desired good (food in the grocers example and place to live in landlords one, both of which are important needs for survival, hell, food is even more important than shelter). Also the landlord has to maintain the rented apartments, so can you truly say that they are not using their own labour? And yes, state run housing would be way better than the current system, but this is what we currently have, so is there some reason why landlordism is way more negative in particular and gets targeted more than other capitalistic practices?
Why is landlordism bad?
Landlords are not typically not capitalists. If they do not invest the rent they've earned into developing more land for the purpose of extracting more rent in the future then they are parasites on society. They do not expand the overall wealth of societies and even classical bourgeois economists hate landlords.
In Burgerland lots of people pay half their monthly income on rent. Get it now?
And I though burgers were poorly educated.
They have a janitor for that. If you own 5-7 apartments you can easily pay a janitor and still make lots of money by nothing but owning property. Many people haven't even seen or talked to their landlord because he outsourced everything to facility managers.
Also rent-seeking is shit because it doesn't even accumulate capital (e.g. develop the productive forces necessary for socialism). It's entirely parasitic.
As Marx pointed out, capitalism "masks" exploitation by paying the worker the full value of their labour power, while (pretty much post-feudal) rent-seeking is not only the most open form of exploitation, it also hurts the average worker the most in the 21st century - to rent an apartment in any Western city bigger than 100k inhabitants will eat up half your paycheck. Full time labourers who used to be able to rent out a small 2-room apartment now have to live in a shared flat with bunch of students.
Landlords are disgusting.
you can say a lot of things about burgers but at least we dont tolerate monarchy
Well, most of what I see from landlords in my country is them being brainlets and buying up a crap ton of apartments through taking loans right before global economic crashes. It happened in 2008, it seems to be starting to happen right now once again. Thus it is kind of hard to see a bunch of chud dipshits who go bankrupt every 10 years as some evil societal enemy
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