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VideoGamesForU t1_jbnivn2 wrote

What an amazing story. Holocaust survivor gets taken care of for free at the end of her life. Great lady and great people that took care of her.

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sdlover420 t1_jboeo8f wrote

What an honorable human! It's nice to see some landlords aren't hedge fund mindset ass holes.

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UnprofessionalGhosts t1_jbpyo3p wrote

A lot of NYC landlords are on site and grew up in the building their family has owned for generations and built 100+ years ago. It’s one of the only ways local families can afford to stay and it’s a much, much different situation for the landlord and the tenant than the majority of rentals. More like a commune.

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n0oo7 t1_jbowz9e wrote

He also drives her everywhere, bank, doctor, grocery store.

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Immediate-Win-4928 t1_jbozpti wrote

He did briefly, she's dead.

Her apartment has been relet at the normal $2000 per month rate

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YuriTarded_69 t1_jbomxz8 wrote

It says she passed away in January at the end of the article :(

I was pretty uplifted till I read that part ngl

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Bacon_Bitz t1_jbp1ol3 wrote

She lived a very long life and passed away surrounded by people who cared. That is what we all hope for.

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LoudColin t1_jbpc6q2 wrote

Honestly this is such an incredible perspective. Just knowing she was loved until the end, even when she lost her family so early in life, can give someone's life a good ending.

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Pelumo_64 t1_jdta38u wrote

Wait, every time we finish reading the article she dies again?

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YuriTarded_69 t1_jdtidwj wrote

only took 16 days for a real redditor to reply to my comment 💀💀

nah but fr bro what makes you think anybody cares about you correcting my grammar? 😭

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Pelumo_64 t1_jdtkwiv wrote

>what makes you think anybody cares about you correcting my grammar?

You do realize that you did reply, right?

Nah, jk, but, fr, I just found the concept that she wouldn't have died had you not finished reading the article comical, as did some other reply that took it in a different direction.

It's nothing personal or bad grammar, just vague wording, that's all.

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YuriTarded_69 t1_jdtmnuu wrote

I get it dude. i also value grammar greatly, but there’s some things you should just not comment sometimes…

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Pelumo_64 t1_jdtzgdc wrote

I didn't mean to be disrespectful. Sorry...

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fairyhedgehog t1_jbohme8 wrote

It's a story of two great landlords really.

The first one deserves a lot of praise for keeping the rent the same for 60 years! And for doing the monthly drive around. I wonder how long that had been going on.

And of course the second landlord and his mother deserve praise too. It's great to know that there are such lovely people around.

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ToxicBanana69 t1_jbon4zm wrote

I sometimes forget that the Holocaust was less than a hundred years ago…

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MyownLunasea t1_jbox57c wrote

I feel the same way. Almost like something this horrific had to be way back - like it sort of excuses them in an odd way or something because we couldn't be that shitty now - I know it is incorrect and that horrible still goes on- not sure why my brain wants to interpret that way.

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dreamsofaninsomniac t1_jbpdi0r wrote

Making historical photos black and white when color photography was available can be used as a propaganda tool for that reason. It's why you see a lot of Civil Rights photos in the '60s in black and white when color photography was available.

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monsterscallinghome t1_jbqqfbs wrote

Time to remind everyone that Ruby Bridges is still alive and only in her mid-60's, and therefore the teens throwing rocks at her are in their mid-70's; that MLK, Anne Frank, Ursula K LeGuin and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year, and King was assassinated mere months after he shifted his organizing focus from race to economic inequality and began working across racial lines to demand things like public housing, universal health care, and universal basic income.

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beastmaster11 t1_jbpvwe9 wrote

The last nazi death camp was liberated when she was 15. So not like she was an infant that didn't remember the horrors.

But in all honesty before I did the math I though she would be older. To me, all senior citizens were alive at the time but I am realizing that we will soon be in a situation where nobody that was a victim of these horrors will be around to tell us about them making it easier to downplay

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Curiosities t1_jbqhtfu wrote

My boyfriend's grandfather died back in early 2020 at around 100. He was a camp survivor and lost much of his family there. We met briefly, before he retired and moved, but it really does drive home how things are still within living history. At some point, his grandfather recorded his story for the Shoah Foundation.

With all of the antivax stuff in the news, it made me think of my teacher disabled by polio, and out of sight, out of mind, because no one under 40, basically, remembers what that looked like. So they are more susceptible to anti-science.

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blackbirdbluebird17 t1_jbq5h0j wrote

Auschwitz was liberated 78 years ago, as of the end of January.

I’ve met and spoken with survivors. My grandfather lost extended family. It is very much still in living memory.

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Mtnskydancer t1_jbop261 wrote

Why is that?

Is it how it’s taught, or not, in school? Do you live in an area with few Jews? (That you can tell, many of us aren’t stereotypical in looks)

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ToxicBanana69 t1_jbopmbc wrote

No reason other than it was such a horrific time period, so I sometimes just think of it as something that happened a long time ago, if that makes sense.

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HaloGuy381 t1_jbpcgor wrote

If you’d like a reminder of how little time has passed: I’m 25. My father was the first of his line born in the US back in 1969 to someone who immigrated to the US after enduring the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

The Holocaust was not so long ago. That we seem to have so many eager to repeat that horrific atrocity, whether toward Jews or another minority scapegoat, is deeply disturbing.

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Mtnskydancer t1_jbot7iq wrote

Sort of.

Horrific is always happening, though.

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ToxicBanana69 t1_jbovj2l wrote

Oh yeah, for sure. But it’s easier for me to look at current events as…well, “current”. But things that happened in the past always seem much more distant to me than they actually are. Take Princess Diana’s death, for example. I usually, subconsciously think of her death as happening long ago, like the 60’s or 70’s or something, when the reality is she died less than a year before I was born.

Past events just mess with my sense of time, I guess

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Mtnskydancer t1_jboxj30 wrote

I was in university then. Somehow I got it in my head that she and Mother Theresa died the same day. Nope.

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Real_Life_Firbolg t1_jbrdjno wrote

My grandpa was born 2 years after the titanic sunk and I’m only 25, he waited until he was in his 40s to have kids and my mom had me in her 40s, I have pictures from him that he took while stationed in Normandy after D-Day, it is very shocking to a lot of people when I tell them that, only 2 generations of that side of my family in the last century, if I’m lucky and live as long as he did I’ll make it to 2091 and then that 2 generations will have almost stretched out to 2 centuries, about 23 years short of 2 centuries, but 2 decades short of 2 centuries in only 2 generations won’t be that bad right.

Edit: Telling this reminded me of one of the photos he took of an elderly couple in front of a destroyed house, it said something like Mr. And Mrs. Family name they gave me food, no idea who that French elderly couple was but their kindness meant enough to my grandpa to show a picture of them to his grandson 60 years later

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8976r7 t1_jbnmf3c wrote

that was worth the read. very sweet story.

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danathecount t1_jbog6ta wrote

Based on the picture, and the fact this was his first property, the landlord was surprisingly young.

Good on him, the future of America isn't all the bleak.

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MyownLunasea t1_jbowrug wrote

This is they way the whole world should be not just those born in America.

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PuppleKao t1_jbpn1we wrote

But it seems so often that Americans are just dead-set on not helping their fellow humans. Think that's why they specified America

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disdainfulsideeye t1_jbqsinn wrote

Not all Americans.

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PuppleKao t1_jbqwehf wrote

True. I'd say probably few of the citizens, but the 1% and a large portion of the politicians for sure...

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ra_ra_raccoon t1_jbowgd3 wrote

This hits different when my NY landlord is currently trying to evict my 94 year old neighbor

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ncc74656m t1_jbpdvpc wrote

I hope your landlord falls down the stairs on the way out from handing them an eviction notice, and better, I hope they're unable to move or call for help but everyone in the building just steps around them and ignores them til it's too late. 💜

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currymonsterCA t1_jbnic5w wrote

What a great story...good people will always find each other :)

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Asphaltman t1_jbo74t5 wrote

Wait this can't be right. Reddit taught me landlords can only be pure evil.

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_wombo4combo t1_jbo7jq3 wrote

The inherant unethicality of a position in society ≠ inherant unethicality on the part of each person who holds it.

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OSRS_Rising t1_jbojkzg wrote

But what if I like being a renter? My wife and I have no intention of owning a home right now and would prefer to continue renting for the foreseeable future.

Is it unethical for someone to accommodate us?

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jessuvius t1_jbonaj1 wrote

Many landlords follow the market into scalper prices, and don't maintain the properties they own to a level they themselves would want to live in. I dunno if being a landlord in general is unethical, but THAT certainly is.

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OSRS_Rising t1_jbonmhh wrote

I agree completely, I recently read “Evicted” by Matthew Desmond and the system, especially evictions, is awful.

That said, I don’t understand the “landlording is bad” crowd. Without landlords I can’t rent, and I like renting…

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upstatestruggler t1_jbpopik wrote

We were fortunate to be able to keep the first house we bought when we moved on up a couple years ago. We rent our old house well below market to the guy who was our tenant while we lived there and a guy I grew up with and his growing family. Original guy has no interest in being a homeowner and the family is not and may never be in a position to buy a home. I refuse to accept that I am a bad person simply because I rent out a home I own to people who want to live in it.

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BigBronyBoy t1_jbokcpp wrote

According to Socialists on Reddit yes. According to most people in the real world no.

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OSRS_Rising t1_jbomj5k wrote

I guess I have to go into debt for 30 years, permanently choose my living space, and be on the hook for major repairs on top of being in debt all while still beginning my family because… renting bad lol

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Z86144 t1_jbono3h wrote

Rent on average has increased 320% over 10 years. Home ownership costs 14%. But sure its just some dumb young socialist kids on reddit

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OSRS_Rising t1_jboo6ko wrote

If you’re privileged enough to be able to afford a home right now, I’m genuinely happy for you, but I am not.

I would prefer to only be tied down to a place for one year at a max and not be in debt for longer than I’ve been alive to live in a place I might not end up even wanting to stay in.

Home ownership is for some, but not for me.

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Z86144 t1_jboovbn wrote

I understand and I didn't mean to criticize you or your decisions. I just wanted to point out that the reason people say landlords and renting are inherently bad is because they have jacked up rent costs to make even that unaffordable for many. And when you look into why, its primarily greed

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OSRS_Rising t1_jbopbjg wrote

I understand how in many places the system is awful, I’d recommend reading “Evicted” by Matthew Desmond. I wanted to hug my landlord after hearing how awful they can be lol.

The system is in need of reform, especially with how punitive evictions are, but I think people going into the “landlording is inherently immoral” arguments aren’t contributing anything to the discussion and just making reform-minded people look bad.

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RANDY_MAR5H t1_jbo8uhq wrote

Lol

What is inherently unethical about owning property and providing that property to rent?

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ladotelli46 t1_jbogx2e wrote

That some landlords don’t provide anything of value except a human right that is commodified, and live off of other people’s value i.e. parasite

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a49fsd t1_jboykgp wrote

renting allows me to move every 2-3 years. I hate being tied down to a place.

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OSRS_Rising t1_jbompub wrote

Farmers don’t provide anything of value except a human right (food) that is commodified.

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ladotelli46 t1_jbopj92 wrote

They make the food. Landlords don’t make land, don’t make houses. They lord.

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OSRS_Rising t1_jboq7tn wrote

So it’s not wrong to sell a human right, we can agree on that.

I’d argue my landlord allows me to live more stress-free than I would if I were home owning. My fridge broke last month, I called him, and had a new one in two days. This is an expense I would have had trouble affording had I been on the hook for it.

I haven’t mowed a lawn in years because he and his son mow mine, and I haven’t had to worry about replacing a lawnmower or spending thousands getting it fixed every year like my parents…

Tl;dr I do not want to own a home and for me, landlords provide a necessary service

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ZellZoy t1_jbosqtv wrote

You ever play monopoly? You ever play monopoly where one player starts out owning 3/4 of the board? Kinda hard to win in that game isn't it?

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refreshertowel t1_jbowsq8 wrote

Lol, you obviously know that fridge repairmen exist right? And gardeners? They don't exist solely through your landlord. You would pay a lot less just to hire them when things break / need mowing than you do in rent.

You are paying for the privilege of someone else living off your money, while also occasionally having to use your money to pay someone else to do something else to the property you live at.

If the landlords weren't making more money from you than they were spending on services, they would kick you out my friend.

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OSRS_Rising t1_jboxbxw wrote

My fridge needed replaced. This was an unexpected, four-figure purchase I didn’t have to make.

I’m not opposed to my landlord making a profit off me, every service does that. When I get my car fixed, I’m aware they are making a significant profit off of the interaction.

I’d question my landlord’s sanity if he wasn’t making money lol

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refreshertowel t1_jboytcq wrote

I "own" my own house. It's not the greatest house and has needed many repairs throughout the years I've been living here. The amount of money I have saved by not paying rent over that time is literally mindboggling. You are caught in a trap you do not realise. Unless you are a millionaire renting a condo and using it as a tax writeoff or some other absurd situation, you are literally being fucked in the arse by your landlord, no matter how much you try to justify it.

If your time is so valuable that a phone call and repair costs for any item in your house is worth less to you than the time taken to do it then you should own your house already. If your time is not that valuable, then your decade/lifetime rent costs will outpace any possible repairs/maintanence by huge amounts.

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OSRS_Rising t1_jbp1mh7 wrote

I pay around 25% if my income a year for housing and some back-of-the-napkin math says I’ll have paid what the average home in my state costs after 25-ish years.

But I don’t want a home or land. I’m paying for a product I actually want and it feels classist to assume that there’s only one “right” way of living life—owning a home.

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refreshertowel t1_jbp4j2i wrote

I don't think anyone should own land, and I've lived under a bridge at one point, so no, I don't think I'm being classist. What I am being is anti-landlord. There is no contribution they make that makes it worth anyone's while to justify their existence.

In my ideal world, you would not have to worry about owning a home or land either, but for entirely different reasons than a landlord makes it worth your while not to.

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Sunira t1_jbpj3no wrote

Yeah I agree with you that it's classist. Also homeowners love to say renting costs more but then you're free of any real estate market ups and downs, can leave whenever you feel like it, and homeowners spend the first 10 years giving most of their mortgage money to a bank via interest that doesn't go towards their loan amount. Also did everyone suddenly forget 2008-2014 where tons of the country were underwater in their homevalue vs mortgage and were literally trapped in their house or having to sell at a HUGE loss? A renter can just pack up and go when the economy or opportunity moves in a different direction. As a homeowner you also have to cover insurance and still pay for major expenses. Sure maybe a fridge might cost 1500, but a roof is like 15k on the low end, windows are like 750 each to replace .. did your AC unit go out? THOUSANDS. And it all adds up. Property taxes on top --etc. I say this as a homeowner that LOVES their home and is willing to have the cost -- but its delusional to think that someone paying $1500 in rent is somehow way worse off than someone with a $1200 mortgage. That's some horse blinders for real estate right there.

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prontoon t1_jbtcxf6 wrote

Good luck trying to convince anyone on reddit that landlord = evil hitler human. Reddit is full of renters who are seething at their landlords, your view is completely correct, just won't stick to someone who is echoing the "reddit opinion"

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pzivan t1_jbr8tou wrote

In a sense, hotels and Airbnb are the same

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EeyoresM8 t1_jboiodu wrote

Literally all of society is about living off of other people's value, that's the whole point of society, so you don't have to provide every service for yourself

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refreshertowel t1_jbomsrh wrote

Yes, society needs people contributing from all sides, but only capitalism lets non-contributors own the contributions of others.

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Butt_Bucket t1_jbop2vy wrote

Yeah, capitalism can be pretty great like that. I'm glad I get to own things, and that I can leave them for my next of kin when I die. Sure is nice.

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refreshertowel t1_jboqyjf wrote

Huh, I didn't realise noone ever owned anything until capitalism came around in the the early 19th century. The more you know 🌈

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ZellZoy t1_jbot0sk wrote

People often confuse capitalism and mercantilism which is honestly fair, the lines are kinda blurry. It doesn't help that anything left of hunting the homeless down for food is branded as communism wiping out all of the systems in between

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refreshertowel t1_jbovpv9 wrote

Indeed, it's bizarre to me how wholeheartedly capitalism has infected every mode of thought in the modern world.

Go back less than a hundred years and there's a vast swathe of people pointing out that wages are another form of slavery...

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Butt_Bucket t1_jbos8yz wrote

People did own things before capitalism came around. Hell, I would even go as far as to say that the entire concept of owning things created by other people massively predates capitalism too. Shit, its almost like your argument that "only capitalism lets non-contributors own the contributions of others" is completely wrong.

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refreshertowel t1_jbov5qe wrote

Yeah, this is true, I was being mildly facetious when I said only capitalism allows such a thing. Many, many systems of production extortion have existed throughout the ages. Have you heard of the concept of Kings and the kinda shit that went down while they were the hot new thing?!

Regardless, "owning" land is an absurd concept and should be done away with. At best it's a method used by people in power to prevent others from extricating themselves from the said power. At best.

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Butt_Bucket t1_jbox630 wrote

If it's such an absurd concept to you, then you don't have to own land. It's not compulsory.

>At best it's a method used by people in power to prevent others from extricating themselves from the said power. At best.

What about the countless millions of people who only own the land they live on? Do you believe they're oppressing everybody else by not sharing it?

If you really feel that strongly about it, I'm sure you must already live in a commune open to any destitute people who need a place. And if you don't, then maybe its time to start freely sharing your living space with strangers. Even better if you own land. Be the change you want to see in the world.

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refreshertowel t1_jbozpox wrote

My entire garden is either local flora to help our native bees and other insects live or produce and that produce is freely shared with any people around me. My neighbours are entirely free to enter my yard whenever they want and to take any crops that interest them. Any neighbourhood kids have free reign over my yard, and there's often little football matches playing out in my front yard (as long as they don't damage the garden, as that is a communal resource).

While I'm forced to participate in this gross facade we have built as a society in order not to live in squalor, I'm very happy to share "my" land with those around me.

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Butt_Bucket t1_jbp1pzp wrote

"My entire garden"

"My yard"

While I'm glad to hear that you're a generous person, it seems as if you still have a pretty strong concept of what belongs to you. You still value being the person who gets to decide how your land is used and shared. You can own something and still be generous with it.

I don't believe for a second that you would be happy if you suddenly lost all protections of ownership associated with your land, and had to cede it completely to wider society without any individual authority over what becomes of it. I'm not creating a dramatic hypothetical here. This is the exact scenario you invoke when you say that owning land is an absurd concept that should be done away with.

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refreshertowel t1_jbp3xh8 wrote

Everyone who rents submits to a similar situation you describe, lol. Want to put up a painting on a wall? Needs owners permission. Want to remove a plant or add a new one to the garden? Needs owners permission. The only "ownership" that is allowed under land owners is that which they grant.

If that is some horrible dystopian nightmare, welcome to the modern world my friend.

The difference between myself and those other land owners is that I don't believe any of us should be able to profit from people living on land. I'm happy as long as I have something to shelter myself from the rain and something soft to lie on. I've lived in conditions without either.

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Butt_Bucket t1_jbp61nt wrote

>Everyone who rents submits to a similar situation you describe, lol. Want to put up a painting on a wall? Needs owners permission. Want to remove a plant or add a new one to the garden? Needs owners permission. The only "ownership" that is allowed under land owners is that which they grant.
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>If that is some horrible dystopian nightmare, welcome to the modern world my friend

Renters don't own the land they live on, so they don't have ownership rights. I'm not sure why you think I'd have a problem with that. They do have occupancy rights and I think that's important too.

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>The difference between myself and those other land owners is that I don't believe any of us should be able to profit from people living on land.

Cool, but what you said was "owning land is an absurd concept that should be done away with". Profiting from land ownership is a step further, and being against that is a much less radical position that I probably would be more inclined to believe that you actually hold.

Do you actually want to abolish land ownership entirely or just renting land/property for money?

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refreshertowel t1_jbp9mya wrote

Land ownership entirely. Forgive my slip of the tongue when I said "my", and let me replace it with "the". The essential being of the land remains the same regardless of what word I use to refer to it. You are neglecting the fact that it is impossible to live in the modern world, bar living in forced squalor, without some semblance of land ownership when you try to play the fact that I participate in the system against my views.

This is a common misunderstanding of people pro-establishment when talking to people anti-establishment: "Well, how can you be against X when you participate in X!" It's because the system is set up so there is no sensible way of living without X. It doesn't mean that a world without X is impossible.

The earth is the earth. It doesn't belong to any specific person, government or nation. An insect "owns" as much of the earth as you or I do.

I believe that national borders enable extreme exploitation of the working class. I believe that land ownership, especially (but not exclusively) when paired with multiple property owners, enables an extraction of wealth towards the ruling class (whether it be through property taxes or rent) from the worker, with no benefit to the overall society beyond some figures in a banking account growing an extra digit or two.

There have been many, many times in the hundreds of thousands of years throughout human history that long periods of harmony have existed without a concept of land ownership and the idea that land being owned is somehow essential to society or life is very incorrect. It's just not compatible with capitalism and all that entails.

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MrSurfington t1_jbor3mq wrote

Landlords do not provide value, they don't do anything at all except own your house and take your income. They don't "provide a service". I shouldn't be out of a home because the housing economy says rent should be high. Housing, like water and health care, is a human right cuz without it you will die.

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redditikonto t1_jboyrut wrote

Providing a house, taking care of it, and carrying the risks involved is a service.

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monkeygoneape t1_jboy2xq wrote

Not sure what landlords are like in the states, but up here in Canada they're also responsible for maintenance and all the expenses around that

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KitsyBlue t1_jbqgbz2 wrote

I'd gladly put the 900$ a month I pay towards upkeep if I could say goodbye to a landlord.

That's why I'm trying to get out of renting. Oh, wait though. It's a shame that the housing market is getting fucked price wise because rental companies and investors are buying up all the fucking supply, driving costs to unsustainable levels so they can go another day producing nothing of value to society.

Can't imagine why people have a negative opinion of them. They're like SNES mini scalpers, except I can live without an SNES mini. They contribute as much to society as one, too.

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bombbrigade t1_jbp3d0q wrote

They are in the US too. Tennant rights far exceed the landlords in nearly all states

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monkeygoneape t1_jbp3kx3 wrote

So the previous post was just a guy being pissy because he has to pay bills?

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refreshertowel t1_jbpaa85 wrote

Yes, of course. The landlords are constantly losing money and it's bizarre that the shitty tenants would complain when they have such an amazing deal.

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EeyoresM8 t1_jbp3hxa wrote

They don't own your house, they let you live in their house. The right to housing is different to the right to own your own house.

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GaryCXJk t1_jboai1e wrote

I mean landlords ask for rent, and Rent is also a musical. Another musical is The Producers, which tells about a fictional musical, which is about...

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dildoswaggins71069 t1_jbojdgd wrote

It’s no fair cuz I can’t afford my human rights!! Landlards r slavery

/s

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bamhotsauce t1_jbp0n4k wrote

Wild concept, in a perfect society this renting could be socialized instead of private owners gouging and providing, in many cases, sub standard service.

That’s why people hate landlords, they’re not valuable they just had a down payment you didn’t.

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alternative5 t1_jbp36oc wrote

In a socialized system who decides who gets to live where? Is it a lottery drawing that decides who lives in the rented hi rises overlooking central park? Or a lottery deciding those that just get to live in New York or Miami or San Francisco or Los Angeles? Because all those cities have crazy housing/renting cost due to demand and even if you replaced every single family home or ever small multi story with a large multi story it still wouldnt be enough to cover the massive demand. So who would choose who gets to live in those cities?

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way2lazy2care t1_jbp4wyx wrote

You can socialize it. Nobody is stopping anybody from going in on a condo building where everybody owns and the condo association manages things.

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Asphaltman t1_jbp96gu wrote

There is lots of socialized housing. Usually it involves a waiting list.

Like any business if there is substandard service the customers are free to choose a different business or supplier to support.

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Honest_Percentage_44 t1_jbopnm6 wrote

They are chaotic evil. Sometimes for no apparent reason they will do the single greatest act of mercy just to fuck with our heads

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KitsyBlue t1_jbqfqfp wrote

He's still engaging in an inherently unethical practice while doing this nice thing.

It's like a Robin Hood who steals from the poor and struggling to help... other poor and struggling people.

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Left-Star2240 t1_jboc781 wrote

Stories like this are a reminder that there are still genuinely kind people in the world.

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SeriousPenguinIssues t1_jbpabeh wrote

I have a client out here in California. She is caring for her 94 year old neighbor he recently passed away he was sent to the United States for safety at the beginning of the war. His entire family was wiped out. She was also sent to live in the United States with relatives, her entire family is now gone. Both of their families were wiped out in the holocaust, and they have literally no one else on earth to care for them.

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TaffyTiger t1_jbofs4h wrote

Being kind can make anyone a hero.

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wunderl-ck t1_jboctij wrote

This is one of the cutest people I have ever seen in my LIFE!!!!!

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santa_cruz_shredder t1_jbpgmxv wrote

This belongs in /r/latestagecapitalism for sure. A landlord has pity on an old lady with no one so people cheer? And what about in the case when the lordland didn't give a fuck and this lady died on the streets instead? It's a travesty this lady had to rely on charity instead of having a social program to support her.

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LennyLeanordsEye_55 t1_jbrh5aj wrote

Welcome to r/upliftingnews. Its loaded with feel good stories that shouldn’t have been stories in the first place in an allegedly civilized society

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riah8 t1_jbop9bz wrote

As if the Holocaust wasn't bad enough now she has to deal with a New York landlord.

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Tha_Watcher t1_jbouun0 wrote

I'm not crying, you're crying!

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meowmixmotherfucker t1_jbovxbm wrote

Nice to see some honestly uplifting news instead of the usual “tragic thing that shouldn’t happen taken care of by child who shouldn’t be working.”

This is great, I’m glad there were so many supportive people around her and that in the end she was carted for by an empathetic and honorable family.

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redditikonto t1_jboz0l7 wrote

Well holocaust shouldn't have happened either.

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bouldersizedboulder t1_jbp52ji wrote

Sorry but I can no longer see these stories about how our dystopian society not taking care of people results in people needing to volunteer to do it as wholesome

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davi017 t1_jboopvw wrote

Does the landlord inherit her possessions?

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wakashit t1_jboztgs wrote

I wouldn’t say inherit, but they are responsible for removing them to make the apartment available for a new tenant.

So theoretically they would be able to take anything of value while cleaning it out.

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supagirl277 t1_jbphp60 wrote

The uplifting part is that the landlord was willing to do it. Everything else is awful

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Kuwing t1_jbop5vv wrote

This is so sad

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ROGER_SHREDERER t1_jboxnyc wrote

My landlord would definitely charge extra rent for this amenity.

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CanadiangirlEH t1_jbpio2g wrote

I get more jaded with each passing year, but this legitimately made me cry. As horrible as the world can be and as horrible as people can be to each other, we forget that there are still many wonderful people out there. We’re force fed misery on a constant basis and more news stories like this are badly needed.

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Sterotypo t1_jbre0mw wrote

Probably not uplifting in the end. Keyword landord

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Midnight1965 t1_jbr69d4 wrote

Such a heartwarming story. There are some great people left in the world.

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b00b00jeffries t1_jbs63tn wrote

Good people (landlord and his mother). It's not often someone speaks of a landlord in a postive light.

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sybann t1_jbq7uwp wrote

Bless the mensch. What a guy.

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sinaloa555 t1_jbrd1co wrote

This is the sweetest thing I’ve seen in awhile, she didn’t die alone.

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wunwinglo t1_jbp5kxc wrote

How is being a holocaust survivor pertinent to the story? I don’t understand.

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kmo9e t1_jbo89y7 wrote

Landlord huh? What a bastard. -Reddit

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BigBronyBoy t1_jboktg8 wrote

You see rentoids? This is what happens when you tip your landchad 200%. Us Landchads are truly benevolent beings, just stock your fridge, pay the tip and we are good to go. Landchad rights are Human Rights! And us PoL (People of Land) appreciate when we are finally understood for who we really are.

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WutWhoSaidDat t1_jbokqds wrote

Only reason this story exists is as propaganda to counter all the anti landlord stories that exist.

“We aren’t all evil fucks trying to raise rent to make people homeless!”

What’s the difference between this and the pro cop hero stories that get posted immediately after one about them committing a crime against a citizen?

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OSRS_Rising t1_jbomxm6 wrote

How are cops comparable to landlords lol

I do not want to own a home and my wife and I would prefer renting over home ownership for a number of reasons.

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WutWhoSaidDat t1_jbon5oz wrote

Nobody likes either group.

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OSRS_Rising t1_jbontuk wrote

ACAB, but what’s wrong with landlords? I do not want to own a home at this stage in my life and neither does my wife.

They provide a service that I want, cops (for the most part), not so much…

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ZellZoy t1_jbotet7 wrote

Because if landlords weren't snapping up hundreds of properties each owning a home would be cheaper than renting is now even if you account for incidentals like fixing fridges and roofs

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kloakndaggers t1_jbozw5b wrote

that is totally area dependent..... Yes, you build long-term equity and potentially well but in some areas it is much cheaper to rent than it is to buy

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ZellZoy t1_jbp4u5d wrote

>Because if landlords weren't snapping up hundreds of properties

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kloakndaggers t1_jbpyc60 wrote

the small and pop landlords have been around forever. institutional purchases have really only gotten pop in the last 5 years or so. Even before that, places like California and New York renting was more affordable in many cases.

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newbutnotreallynew t1_jbozqn9 wrote

That service can also be provided by some entity that isn‘t profit seeking. Especially with modern technology, it shouldn‘t be any trouble at all to manage a part of housing stock for temporary accommodations without a bunch of wealthy people as inbetween. Make it something like nonprofit/coop or rent controls, if you don‘t want to go for full on socialism.

Vienna is actually a good real life example for this in action even under capitalism, where the city owns huge apartment blocks and thus keep the prices generally lower, since space is available that is not for profit.

Here, found an article explaining it: https://housing4.us/how-vienna-ensures-affordable-housing-for-all-with-an-extremely-complicated-housing-system/

That one might actually explain a bit better to how this came about too: https://www.politico.eu/article/vienna-social-housing-architecture-austria-stigma/amp/

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