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They're not unlawful but they are tyrannical. Imagine a free market where landlords could lease to tenants on any terms mutually acceptable to both, on terms t
by spacebanana7 2y ago
They're not unlawful but they are tyrannical.
Imagine a free market where landlords could lease to tenants on any terms mutually acceptable to both, on terms that could be continually revised. Like the terms on most standard websites.
A large rent change might encourage a tenant to leave the agreement. But a small, annoying and petty demand might not justify the hassle of the tenant leaving.
For example a landlord could suddenly and arbitrary ban carrots from being in the house. I don't particularly like carrots, and moving all my stuff to a different apartment to have the ability to eat them is hard to justify. But it's tyrannical of a landlord to exercise power like that.
- HPsquared 2y agoThat sums up a lot of peoples' relationship with the state. Only it's the "social contract" and you can't get out of it.
- exe34 2y agois this a Western democracy you are referring to?
- HPsquared 2y agoIt's pretty much universal.
- exe34 2y agono, in a democracy you get to vote on who you want to run the country. if you don't like the options, you need to run for election on your own platform. either way, you get the government you deserve.
- HPsquared 2y agoOnly in a kind of abstract way. Just like you can in theory buy ebooks from someone other than Amazon, or make a rival company, but it won't make any difference. The individual just has to accept whatever they are given.
- exe34 2y agoif your platform doesn't take off, it means your offering isn't as popular as you think.
- epolanski 2y agoGood thing is that in a democracy you can choose who you vote, campaign for them or even get elected and change it.
- HPsquared 2y agoAnd you can always personally not buy a given product from Amazon. It's about the same level of input.