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Rent is theft
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this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026
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The ability to live somewhere that otherwise would have been reversed?
I am lucky enough to be able to own a home. I can live here, and nobody else. But if I decided to rent my home out and they paid me rent, they could live here instead!
They could also live there if you sold it to them.
Only if they can afford its price.
Who gets to originate the claim on property? Who gets to set the price and collect on the sale?
As mentioned elsewhere, owning isn't necessarily for everyone.
Freedom isn't necessarily for everyone has also been mentioned throughout time. Slavery has existed all through history.
That doesn't make it ok but anyone who is an enslavery or aspiring enslaver is going to argue some people want to be slaves.
Removing and restricting the agency of others is never ok. When it's for economic gain, it's always exploitation.
The big difference being that one thing being owned is completely inanimate, and the other is a literal human being against their will 🤷♂️
The land speculators do not provide access to the tenant, they prohibit access. That's what inclosure is. You're blocking people from the land on pain of injury and death.
Until the state decrees otherwise, sure.
There are three people and three houses. How do you decide which of the three people owns all three houses and which of the other two pay that first person rent?