Silver Tongue
enchainrain:
“spicyratatooie:
“note that whenever I say huge amounts of wealth can’t be gained through ethical methods this is what I’m talking about
”
To explain just a hair more, if a landlord can use someone’s rent to buy a new property, and use...

enchainrain:

spicyratatooie:

note that whenever I say huge amounts of wealth can’t be gained through ethical methods this is what I’m talking about

To explain just a hair more, if a landlord can use someone’s rent to buy a new property, and use tenants in a new property to buy yet more property, it means every person who pays rent could have also eventually bought a property outright and not had to have such a constant drain. But, no renter could: for lack of upfront funds, for a lack of access due to racism or ableism or classism, for lack of trust given by financial institutions, etc. Put plainly, a landlord contributes no value or service but uses someone else’s funds to compound a landlord’s own riches and get more human livestock to bleed, simply because of a moment of permission granted by more powerful groups. How many people are suffering and struggling to keep an ex-nurse afloat in luxury? What is being contributed?

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  4. tfcoorock said: people who need those things to live or need to use those things to make their own money. I know I’m not going to change anyone’s mind in the tumblr reply section because there isn’t enough room to have a full nuanced discussion but its just so frustrating seeing people talking around each other and missing the point (2/2)
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