ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • I did note later in another thread, a comrade had a good revision. The relationship is evil, not the actual person. Here’s what was said:

    I’d categorize the parasitic relationship as evil, but as for judging individual people for the poverty and homelessness caused by that relationship, it’s more complicated as we live under capitalism.

    Again, I’ve got some salt because my landlord kicked me out last year just because he couldn’t extract enough profit from me. Needless to say, his anger at basic tenant protections has stuck in my craw ever since. I’m earnestly glad you’re for social housing/education/etc as well.


  • The amount it appreciated while we were paying the rent that whole time is how I got that 50 percent. Also, the property actually tripled in value 100k to 300k.

    The total maintenance the owner did over the entire time we were there was 1000 dollars. One month’s rent. Add painting and new carpet, ok, that’s like 5k? We paid more than 100k in rent over that time.

    It was pure profit extraction. The owner actually sent us the numbers to justify kicking us out. , His mother made more than him because of property tax, but after reassessing property taxes, he would have _only_been making 300 a month profit off of us. That’s pure profit after everything. He was mad he couldn’t raise our rent by 500 dollars all at once and instead had to do it yearly.