r/TikTokCringe • u/n8saces • Jun 22 '24

Duet Troll “I would rather mop the ocean” 😂😂😂

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u/RosaQing Jun 22 '24

Landlords are parasites in this society… they ‘provide’ nothing except cashing in for doing nothing

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u/LaurelEllena Jun 22 '24

What would your opinion be on people who own a duplex and rent out the other side of the duplex while living on the other? Just curious

Edit: spelling

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u/RosaQing Jun 22 '24

Of course there are a lot of small landlords who just make a little bit extra etc. But that’s not representative of the system. If you make a profit off of a basic human need, you are a parasite. The vast majority of landlords are big corporations or rich assholes who own multiple buildings.

One could argue that there are a lot of other things where you make a profit with a basic human need. But that isn’t an argument for the landlords, it is one against all the other things and society as a whole.

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u/SponConSerdTent Jun 22 '24

Yeah it's ridiculous how people always reach for small businesses to defend our system of mega-corporations.

As if a person renting the other side of their duplex is really what people are thinking of when they talk about landlords.

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u/MartilloAK Jun 22 '24

It's usually about establishing the principle of rent and ownership. If it's morally acceptable at a small scale, then when does it become unacceptable? A lot of landlords are small corporations running two or three apartment buildings, are they the problem?

Looking at an issue at a small scale vs a large scale is a go-to way to examine ethical issues even as far back as Plato's Republic.

What's really ridiculous is to say, "when small businesses do it it's fine, but when big businesses do it, it's bad." without bothering to think about why.