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A staggering majority of rental units in the US are owned by individuals who own and rent less than 5 units. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/02/a

A staggering majority of rental units in the US are owned by individuals who own and rent less than 5 units. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/02/as-national-eviction-ban-expires-a-look-at-who-rents-and-who-owns-in-the-u-s/ft_21-07-16_landlordsrenters_3/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/02/as-national... What really happened was that taxpayers (read: People who earn and save money and hold some property) bailed out the people who took an opportunity to skip out on paying rent, and took a hit anyway, while their renters were getting all kinds of other free handouts in taxpayer subsidies. Great. So maybe we need some wealth redistribution. But cheering the consolidation of the rental market in the hands of corporations is like snickering evil. You're advocating for the destruction of the middle class. I guess it would make revolution an easier sell. But you know what else could make you happy? Joining the middle class, buckling up and saving money, taking the hard part of it without feeling like a constant victim, and stop wasting your time trying to destroying the wealth people spend their lives working for. Harming other people to bring them down really isn't going to elevate anyone, and you know it. Rooting for the middle class to be destroyed for your own personal satisfaction is greedy, indolent and ultimately self destructive. [edit: It's sad to see you channeling your grievance into something that will only keep you down.]

diordiderot 5y ago
'Middle class' is a blip in human experience caused by fear of a real possibility of socialist takeover made possible by highly progressive taxation. There are only two classes comrade
- noduerme 5y ago
  Pffft - lmao. So everyone should be equally poor? Have you read no history? The only thing the Soviet Union was attempting to do by building socialism was to turn illiterate serfs into a "middle class". The actual, successful construction of a middle class via market capitalism turned out to be the most successful experiment in human human history to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, eradicate famine and plagues, and create almost universal literacy. The very fact that you have the words and "thoughts" with which to question bourgeois society speaks to the great pains your forebears went to to make sure you weren't a slave peasant, and that's what you want to go back to? Shame on ya.
  - SturgeonsLaw 5y ago
    > So everyone should be equally poor? The idea behind workers owning the means of production is that everyone should be equally prosperous.
  - diordiderot 5y ago
    > the most successful experiment in human human history to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty Sorry bub, that's China. > (American success) via market capitalism Via Europeans enslaving everyone else on earth then nearly destroying themselves in WWII > great pains your forebears went to to make sure you weren't a slave peasant If you mean lobbing off Old Louis and Marie's fat gourds then yeah, you're right Anyone born between 1940-70 was born on third base and thought they hit a triple.

diordiderot 5y ago

'Middle class' is a blip in human experience caused by fear of a real possibility of socialist takeover made possible by highly progressive taxation. There are only two classes comrade

noduerme 5y ago
Pffft - lmao. So everyone should be equally poor? Have you read no history? The only thing the Soviet Union was attempting to do by building socialism was to turn illiterate serfs into a "middle class". The actual, successful construction of a middle class via market capitalism turned out to be the most successful experiment in human human history to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, eradicate famine and plagues, and create almost universal literacy. The very fact that you have the words and "thoughts" with which to question bourgeois society speaks to the great pains your forebears went to to make sure you weren't a slave peasant, and that's what you want to go back to? Shame on ya.
- SturgeonsLaw 5y ago
  > So everyone should be equally poor? The idea behind workers owning the means of production is that everyone should be equally prosperous.
- diordiderot 5y ago
  > the most successful experiment in human human history to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty Sorry bub, that's China. > (American success) via market capitalism Via Europeans enslaving everyone else on earth then nearly destroying themselves in WWII > great pains your forebears went to to make sure you weren't a slave peasant If you mean lobbing off Old Louis and Marie's fat gourds then yeah, you're right Anyone born between 1940-70 was born on third base and thought they hit a triple.