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I mean, this whole, you need to pay exorbent amounts of money for a roof over your head, or you get to be homeless is kinda bullshit actually. This isn't nearly as insane as you make it out to be.
What's actually insane is that we have structured society in a way that you participate in it the way we want, or you get to be a homeless ostracized person that we terrorize.
Capitalism is stupid, and so are landlords. #ThanksForComingToMyTedTalk
I think the only person who made it out to be insane is you. I think most people here respect the opinion that paying rent isn't fun, and that rent should be much cheaper than it is, perhaps even free. And we also think it's entertaining to watch someone imagine that they can ignore the law when so many people have tried it before them on this exact issue.
You're assuming that the landlord is charging exorbitant rents. He or she could be chanrging quite reasonable rent.
Well, two things can be true at once.
The very idea of land ownership and thus rent is, when you step all the way back, itself insane - and perhaps the deepest-set hook that the capitalist model has on modern society. That last part might be bullshit, but I'm a layman. Either way, we know how we got here, and we understand why things are the way they are, but most visions of Utopia view a living space as a basic human right. So yeah, it's kinda insane that it isn't a human right in a society as otherwise advanced as ours. That's true.
Also true: if you live in a capitalist society, and rent your living space, it's insane to attempt to just...opt out of the way society works and hope someone on Facebook knows the right secret form to fill out that somehow make that all okay.
This is very likely a mental health issue and it is not sane. Just because capitalism is dumb does not make this behavior sane or rational in any way.
Capitalism is stupid, but so is just deciding to forego it while still living in a capitalist society. This is how stupid prizes are won, and giving this sort of shit even a shred of legitamacy just because it happens to intersect with our politics is, well, stupid.
You have your opinion, and I have mine. Do I pay my rent, obviously...bcz I enjoy not dying. But, it's not stupid to have this opinion.
For fucks sake, we are killing the planet over little green paper, that what's moronic.
Is it presumptuous for me to assume you pay your rent not because you agree with capitalism, but because you know what would happen if you stopped paying rent?
If you have different reasons for paying into a system you disagree with, let me know.
Either way, I think you can game out the rest of my logic as it pertains to the person in the OP, and the level of sanity that you seem to be lending them.
I agree. But I hope you enjoy the unnecessary quotation marks.
"unnecessary"