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Not the same at all, as lawyers do work to get paid.
Landlords rent-seek by charging access to important and scarce property that they themselves don't use. They extract value through ownership alone, and add no labor value of their own to the process, that the tenants as owners couldn't do for themselves.
What gives you the right to these people's paychecks? If you're not using it, then sell it, and don't rent-seek.
There is nothing defensible about being a landlord. Its not exactly the same as owning slaves or owning capital, but all three are based on absentee ownership and extracting value from working people.
What about landlords that do repairs themselves though? Is that not by definition labor or am I missing something here?
The tenants can do upkeep themselves, or pay people to do that. Rent-seeking can still exist even if the rent-seekers promise to do maintenance (which in reality they don't have much interest in doing, especially if it doesn't add value to the property). Tenants often have to live for months with broken ACs, appliances, because their landlords have no desire to upkeep temporary items. The yearly lease is signed, and they're getting their money.
My first landlord sucked, my second landlord was ok, but I suspect most wouldn't be. They repaired everything in a timely fashion, and waived my rent for three months when I got laid off to let me get back on my feet. Still only made sense because I was in college and wasn't sticking around that area long enough to justify buying then selling a property, but for the context acceptable landlords can exist.
Huh? Do you think it's not labor when they fix broken doors, outlets, change locks, upgrade toilets, fridges, etc.? Some landlords even do it themselves without hiring subcontractors.
Fixed that for you. You have this attitude like housing is something that grows out of the ground and landlords just happened to find it while on a walk and put a circle around it.
Nobody takes you people seriously because of this incredibly entitled attitude. Nobody who has ever had to maintain a property through their own sweat cares to adopt this attitude, any more than the people for your strawman would donate their labor to the company they work for in exchange for no paycheck at all.
What gives those people a right to a paycheck? Why aren't they just making things and selling them.
if people could just make things and sell them without having to go through a capitalist...
Commerce != capitalism
Right, you should be building things and giving them away to someone who needs it, for free.
This is such a cool idea, however what if I had needs that weren't being met through charity?