Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?

Please explain your reasoning as well.

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    1. they can but they’re so few and far between that they don’t need mentioning. Loads will claim to have been born poor too but experience has left me unable to trust those claims. I even reference the fact that its not literally all off them, so I’m not sure why you needed to mention it again.

    2. All landlords, I was very clear about that but people making money through simply being a middle person sucks too. Nothing close to landlords though which is why I didn’t mention them and they aren’t covered by what I said.

    3. Ah yes, the old “bitter or a hypocrite” trope. It has to be one or the other, as the amoral people who throw it around can’t comprehend a moral objection to exploitation, usually due to poor empathy and even poorer social skills. The only people who want something for doing no work is landlords and shareholders. Its just astral level projection from people born to wealth, who even try to moralise their explanation by claiming everyone else, not born to their privilege and opportunity, must be lazy.

    It turns out, they dont care about anyone being bitter or hypothetical, let alone the morality of just about anything. They just really don’t want people talking about inequality or exploitation.

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      The only people who want something for doing no work is landlords and shareholders.

      You are incorrect about that. Landlords absolutely do work.

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        Its not me who’s wrong, as owning something isn’t work.

        Now, they might do some repairs or maintenance but thats actual work and not what they’re paid for.

        What they’re paid for is for doing no work and they, like shareholders, are the only people who expect to be paid for doing no work.

        Our society is so messed up that they even have people declaring ownership is work, on their behalf.

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          Being a landlord is in fact, work.

          Simply owning a property is called being a real estate investor. You can invest in property without even setting foot in it.

          But maintaining it, interacting with tenants, etc is all work and that’s what a landlord does. As such, people should get paid for their work.

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            Again, you’re wrong. “Landlord” sn’t work.

            landlord

            a person or organization that owns a room, building, or piece of land that someone else pays rent to use

            You can’t just make up you’re own definition of words. A landlord can outsource all of that to a management company and still be a landlord.

            Maintenance is work and people should be paid for work. However, the landlord will get paid regardless of who does it. Thats because “landlord” isn’t work which is why “landlording” isn’t a verb.

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              “Landlording” is a word. It’s the act of performing the work of a landlord.

              Anyone can pay someone else to do work. But the act of hiring others and making sure they’re doing their job is still work.

              The majority of landlords are known as “mom and pop” which means they only have a few rentals. Many small landlords don’t hire a large team because there’s not enough money coming in from the rental to do so.

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                No, you can’t just make up words either. It’s deliberately misused slang, at best. Even then, I didn’t say it was or wasn’t a word. Please try and keep the sophistry to a minimum. I said it wasn’t a verb as “landlord” isn’t a job and “landlording” isn’t a doing word.

                That’s recruitment, not being a landlord. Recruitment is work.

                Regardless of what names they may or may not have, owning something, in of itself, isn’t a job.

                You’re making this seem a lot harder than it actually is.

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                  Being a landlord IS a job. Being a landlord involves work, and work is a job. This is very simple.

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                    No, owning something, in of itself, isn’t a job. For example, you own the device on which you’re typing you’re utter nonsense. Is you owning your device a job?

                    Have you ever seen a job vacancy for “landlord”?

                    No, of course not. Thats why “landlord” isn’t a job.