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Also many people have subsidized rent... my tenant is on disability and doesn’t pay for rent, food, electricity, gas, or subway pass, and gets $600 per month sp

Also many people have subsidized rent... my tenant is on disability and doesn’t pay for rent, food, electricity, gas, or subway pass, and gets $600 per month spending money, which is all provided by the government. She has asthma

amiga_500 7y ago
You are the one who is subsidized.
- seibelj 7y ago
  No the one who doesn’t pay rent is subsidized
  - amiga_500 7y ago
    The entire system is set up to funnel economic activity into land then onto usurers.
    - seibelj 7y ago
      Well my tenant is one person who beat the system! Never has to work, period.
      - amiga_500 7y ago
        And their income goes to you, who does hardly anything as a landlord.
        seibelj 7y ago
        Other than all the upkeep, legal risk, risk of loss in value, having to deal with harassment from know-nothing internet commenters...
      - distances 7y ago
        What the parent is saying though is that your tenant is only the middle man transferring wealth from the society to you; you are the one who ends up with the money in this scenario.
        jessaustin 7y ago
        The tenant ends up with a roof overhead.
        amiga_500 7y ago
        He's the hand sanitizer guy. Taking land off the market then "solving" the supply issue.
        jessaustin 7y ago
        You're confusing real estate with dwellings. Renting land is an issue for farmers. Adam Smith had a lot more sympathy for sharecroppers than for apartment dwellers. Even the most basic apartment represents tens of thousands of dollars in investment. No one is going to make that investment without hope of charging "rent". Modern standards don't allow for hovels to be built of local materials on vacant land in a few weeks, as was possible in Smith's time.
        seibelj 7y ago
        And I transfer my wealth to everyone else I pay money to! Welcome to economics.
        distances 7y ago
        Sure, but your comment about the tenant beating the system can sound quite hypocritical when it's also you who found a way to receive other taxpayers' money. There could be many ways to do the same thing, and we should acknowledge we built a system that ultimately benefits the capitalist class. I'm not criticizing you being a landlord here, just pointing out you're both using the system to your benefit and not only your tenant.
      - pertymcpert 7y ago
        You're more of a parasite than her.
        dang 7y ago
        Flamebait and personal attacks will get you banned here. No more of this please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 7y ago
  You started a flamewar here and then kept feeding it. We ban accounts that do that. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do that again. Note how they include, among other thing: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say."
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foldr 7y ago
>She has asthma Not cool to make these judgments about people. You're not her physician and don't have access to her medical records.
- seibelj 7y ago
  Ok well that’s what her disability is - asthma.
  - foldr 7y ago
    I mean that you don't have access to all the information that factored into the decision regarding her eligibility for benefits. You've said that she's "lucked out", implying that she would in fact be able to work, but you don't really know that. Also, you should not be revealing such private information about your tennant, given that your HN account is linked to your real identity.
    - seibelj 7y ago
      It would take a true psychopath triggered into spittling rage by my comments to figure out who my tenant is based upon what I have written. I think the real issue here is some find the fact inconvenient that someone with asthma can be on full, never-working-again disability in the USA. This is a truth, and I haven't passed any judgement on whether it's good or bad. It simply is a fact that people such as this exist and live off society's tax dollars. You can pass your own judgement, I have no comment on whether it's positive or negative.
      - foldr 7y ago
        >someone with asthma can be on full, never-working-again disability in the USA. This depends on the severity of the asthma and other factors. As I said, you don't know this person's medical history or the details of all the conditions they may have. I think it's tasteless to suggest that someone who most likely has quite a serious medical condition has "lucked out". >I haven't passed any judgement on whether it's good or bad. Ha!

amiga_500 7y ago

You are the one who is subsidized.

seibelj 7y ago
No the one who doesn’t pay rent is subsidized
- amiga_500 7y ago
  The entire system is set up to funnel economic activity into land then onto usurers.
  - seibelj 7y ago
    Well my tenant is one person who beat the system! Never has to work, period.
    - amiga_500 7y ago
      And their income goes to you, who does hardly anything as a landlord.
      - seibelj 7y ago
        Other than all the upkeep, legal risk, risk of loss in value, having to deal with harassment from know-nothing internet commenters...
    - distances 7y ago
      What the parent is saying though is that your tenant is only the middle man transferring wealth from the society to you; you are the one who ends up with the money in this scenario.
      - jessaustin 7y ago
        The tenant ends up with a roof overhead.
        amiga_500 7y ago
        He's the hand sanitizer guy. Taking land off the market then "solving" the supply issue.
        jessaustin 7y ago
        You're confusing real estate with dwellings. Renting land is an issue for farmers. Adam Smith had a lot more sympathy for sharecroppers than for apartment dwellers. Even the most basic apartment represents tens of thousands of dollars in investment. No one is going to make that investment without hope of charging "rent". Modern standards don't allow for hovels to be built of local materials on vacant land in a few weeks, as was possible in Smith's time.
      - seibelj 7y ago
        And I transfer my wealth to everyone else I pay money to! Welcome to economics.
        distances 7y ago
        Sure, but your comment about the tenant beating the system can sound quite hypocritical when it's also you who found a way to receive other taxpayers' money. There could be many ways to do the same thing, and we should acknowledge we built a system that ultimately benefits the capitalist class. I'm not criticizing you being a landlord here, just pointing out you're both using the system to your benefit and not only your tenant.
    - pertymcpert 7y ago
      You're more of a parasite than her.
      - dang 7y ago
        Flamebait and personal attacks will get you banned here. No more of this please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dang 7y ago
You started a flamewar here and then kept feeding it. We ban accounts that do that. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do that again. Note how they include, among other thing: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say."

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foldr 7y ago

>She has asthma Not cool to make these judgments about people. You're not her physician and don't have access to her medical records.

seibelj 7y ago
Ok well that’s what her disability is - asthma.
- foldr 7y ago
  I mean that you don't have access to all the information that factored into the decision regarding her eligibility for benefits. You've said that she's "lucked out", implying that she would in fact be able to work, but you don't really know that. Also, you should not be revealing such private information about your tennant, given that your HN account is linked to your real identity.
  - seibelj 7y ago
    It would take a true psychopath triggered into spittling rage by my comments to figure out who my tenant is based upon what I have written. I think the real issue here is some find the fact inconvenient that someone with asthma can be on full, never-working-again disability in the USA. This is a truth, and I haven't passed any judgement on whether it's good or bad. It simply is a fact that people such as this exist and live off society's tax dollars. You can pass your own judgement, I have no comment on whether it's positive or negative.
    - foldr 7y ago
      >someone with asthma can be on full, never-working-again disability in the USA. This depends on the severity of the asthma and other factors. As I said, you don't know this person's medical history or the details of all the conditions they may have. I think it's tasteless to suggest that someone who most likely has quite a serious medical condition has "lucked out". >I haven't passed any judgement on whether it's good or bad. Ha!