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Philosophically, I believe the right to shelter is a more important natural right than any other property right. I don't believe it should be legal to extract

Philosophically, I believe the right to shelter is a more important natural right than any other property right. I don't believe it should be legal to extract a profit from ownership of real estate. I don't have any issues with handymen, gardeners, plumbers, construction workers, or even real estate/leasing agents receiving fair compensation for their labor. My issue is only with the idea that landlords should have a right to take profit.

HKH2 5y ago
So what about admission tickets? Do you have an issue with them?
- throwawaygh 5y ago
  No. Clearly, above, in context, I'm referring to residential real-estate. Everyone having a safe place to live and sleep is a more important right than any other property right. Law designed to protect property rights should start with this premise. Nothing about this premise entails that movie theaters shouldn't exist. Because, again, the goal is to protect the right to shelter and movie theaters don't make for good shelter. Except perhaps in the case where there's not enough housing stock. Which is actually an excellent setting for demonstrating the imminent sanity my value system and cruelty of the landed gentry value system. Why? Because "movie theaters shouldn't have a right to make a profit when people need to sleep in them" isn't even particularly controversial. In rare circumstances when there are severe shortages in habitable housing (eg emergencies) we often see spaces like theaters or stadiums reappropriated as housing. Anyways. Even in hypothetical cases where the right to shelter and property rights of the theater own conflict, it's not the sale admissions tickets that I would object to per se.
  - HKH2 5y ago
    I never said admission tickets to movies. If you got rid of rent, I think you would see something like seasonal passes for properties and other workarounds.

HKH2 5y ago

So what about admission tickets? Do you have an issue with them?

throwawaygh 5y ago
No. Clearly, above, in context, I'm referring to residential real-estate. Everyone having a safe place to live and sleep is a more important right than any other property right. Law designed to protect property rights should start with this premise. Nothing about this premise entails that movie theaters shouldn't exist. Because, again, the goal is to protect the right to shelter and movie theaters don't make for good shelter. Except perhaps in the case where there's not enough housing stock. Which is actually an excellent setting for demonstrating the imminent sanity my value system and cruelty of the landed gentry value system. Why? Because "movie theaters shouldn't have a right to make a profit when people need to sleep in them" isn't even particularly controversial. In rare circumstances when there are severe shortages in habitable housing (eg emergencies) we often see spaces like theaters or stadiums reappropriated as housing. Anyways. Even in hypothetical cases where the right to shelter and property rights of the theater own conflict, it's not the sale admissions tickets that I would object to per se.
- HKH2 5y ago
  I never said admission tickets to movies. If you got rid of rent, I think you would see something like seasonal passes for properties and other workarounds.