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No you can't. How many rent collectors do you know have put no monetary investment into what they're renting?
by prklmn 9y ago
No you can't. How many rent collectors do you know have put no monetary investment into what they're renting?
- maxerickson 9y agoIt happens often enough that there is a term for it -- slumlord.
- kafkaesq 9y agoThe commenter was just simplifying. By "doing nothing" what they really meant was "by not doing all that much work". Compared to people who, you know, actually do hard, serious work for (much less of) a living.
- ada1981 9y agoYou might also look at "doing nothing" in a broader context of "doing nothing" in the face of the genocide that occurred to pave the way for the United States. So, this is one of the small benefits they can enjoy as a result of not contesting the authority of the US government to occupy the USA.
- prklmn 9y agoA small benefit they can enjoy while providing an enourmous benefit for Allergan. Did Allergan experience a genocide too? Let's look at who has more to gain here.
- gcb0 9y agoExactly. And you are envious of the useful idiots instead of the corporation. That is thinking small...
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- kafkaesq 9y agoIndeed. It's exactly this kind of "doing nothing" which makes the world turn on its axis, pretty much.
- gcb0 9y agoYou are making some mental gymnastics to ignore the historical oppression and continuing fight for legal rights. By your flawed logic, someone who inherits a building also have put no monetary investment on what they are renting. You might as well also say that holocaust survivors won the lottery, by that logic. Indian tribes, and every minority that managed to gain any stop-gap benefit, have to invest a lot of effort and time in maintaining their immunity/rights/etc. And this obviously greedy move, make that work harder in the medium/long term for them and every other tribe. So in a way they are putting in a investment.