Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?

Please explain your reasoning as well.

  • @Cowbee@lemmy.ml
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    Landlords are landlords. Rather than simply guillotine landlords forever, it’s better to have publicly owned housing. It’s not really a gray area, the system itself is fucked and should be abolished, but exists precisely because publicly owned housing isn’t widespread yet.

    • Krafty KactusOP
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      53 months ago

      Doesn’t having publicly owned housing make the state a landlord effectively?

      • @Cowbee@lemmy.ml
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        It can, but not necessarily. The issue with landlords is rent-seeking, if the state funnels all of the income towards maintenance, building new housing, or even lowering housing prices without taking profit, they have removed all issues with landlords.

        As a landlord, their goal is to make profit. As a state, their goal is to provide a service.

        • @iLoveFishing
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          83 months ago

          You have a lot more faith in the government than I do

          • @Cowbee@lemmy.ml
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            In a bourgois government? I probably have less faith than you do, but one controlled democratically by the Workers? Far more than any landlord.