He takes care of the house. A bridge troll finds a bridge and then starts extracting toll from everyone crossing it without providing any benefit. A landlord

He takes care of the house. A bridge troll finds a bridge and then starts extracting toll from everyone crossing it without providing any benefit. A landlord is pretty close but not quite the same. But landlordship leads to most humans being born on this Earth already indebted into serfdom to the ones “owning” the land.