Execute his will’s provisions now while he’s still alive and live off the state and any remaining Social Security checks. US policy only really gives help when you’ve finally ran out of money…
I would not want to live off of United States social security if I had severe short term memory loss
The alternative for the market is just someone else probably renting the building out anyway. Would rather have a disabled old man as a landlord than some corporate slime
Yes, but are they fucking them in some crazy way, or is this old man just doing what is often done by people are capable of it?
With severe short term memory loss, I would say this is a fringe case where landlording is fair enough.
Maybe he did it back when landlording wasn’t his only means of income - I don’t know. It doesn’t matter to me because he probably wasnt educated about why landlording is exploitative. It’s sadly a normal thing to do, and sort of a natural reaction to alienation from normal labour for many people who again, are totally uneducated on the topic and inundated in capitalist realism. The chances are, elderly man was and is just some guy. Now he’s some guy with no alternative means of income possible. Not inherently evil, and in my eyes deserving of compassion. It doesn’t sound like he owns a whole raft of properties.
Does something immoral become moral because a disabled person is doing it? Wouldn’t tricking an able bodied/minded landlord into giving up their property be good? Or do you think we have to just be better than our enemies at all moments?
Does something immoral become moral because a disabled person is doing it? Wouldn’t tricking an able bodied/minded landlord into giving up their property be good? Or do you think we have to just be better than our enemies at all moments?
The weird thing about morality is that depending on the circumstances, the same action can become more or less justified.
An able-bodied landlord, at worst, would still be able to get a job like the rest of us. This man is entirely dependent on the income the property provides and has no way to augment his income at this point. The stock market is also unethical, would you feel the same if his 401k got signed over to someone? The answer is the dissolution of these predatory means of ownership while ensuring a good standard of living for everyone. Not taking an disabled, eldery man’s main source of income for your personal gain.
The tenant is not some hero of the working class fighting against the landlords. They’re most likely some shithead swindler who would have stolen someone’s primary residence if they thought they could get away with it.
Why are we believing the best in the landlord’s kid and the worst in the tenet? If we are believing someone is acting in bad faith, why chose the exploited and not the exploiter?
yes haha funny but the conditions are clearly different, this guy owns one property compared to a farmstead with acres and slaves and the ability to kill or take your daughter’s with impunity. If the state dispossessed the guy of his home to give him an actually social safety plan it would be completely fine.
What is this take? He can do the same as anyone in his position who doesn’t own an extra house does. Why should some random person be expected to support him? The tenant could do more good donating the rent money to a charitable organization helping elderly in need - but then we should ask why we’re asking that of that tenant specifically. We don’t know what the elderly man’s financial situation looks like but it’s obviously not the tenant’s responsibility to support him.
What is this take? He can do the same as anyone in his position who doesn’t own an extra house does.
This is only really available in hindsight. The old man doesn’t have the time nor money to figure out a new retirement strategy, especially if a rental property was just signed over. The best situation would be to sell the house and hopefully live off the investment from that until he passes. What’s not good is is removing a source of retirement income from someone when they don’t have a fallback.
Removing landlords as an occupation while ensuring a minimum standard of living is good. Swindling an old man out of his retirement plan for personal gain and possible throwing him into the streets without a safety net is not.
Absolutely ridiculous. That’s like saying we shouldn’t free elderly people’s slaves because they need them to care for them. The elderly man isn’t going to be “thrown into the streets” because he already has a home. Again, you have no basis to assume that this is his only source of income or that he doesn’t have sufficient savings. He at the very least has family, like the person who made this post.
And what about the tenant? For all we know they could be elderly and disabled too, only they weren’t rich enough to “plan for retirement” by setting up a situation where they can steal rent from someone else. They could be saddled with medical debt, they could be a single mother trying to support a family, if you get to speculate about the landlord’s situation then I get to speculate about the tenant’s.
Completely bizarre pro-landlord takes on Hexbear, can’t believe what I’m seeing. It’s not the tenant’s responsibility.
Nah this aint the take here, yeah landlord bad but with no social safety net what can the elderly man actually do otherwise?
Execute his will’s provisions now while he’s still alive and live off the state and any remaining Social Security checks. US policy only really gives help when you’ve finally ran out of money…
I would not want to live off of United States social security if I had severe short term memory loss
The alternative for the market is just someone else probably renting the building out anyway. Would rather have a disabled old man as a landlord than some corporate slime
Perhaps, but what happens when he passes away?
ghoul son takes over sure but I still think it’s bad to con a disabled person out of their only viable income…
Here it is disabled old man as landlord, or owning the goddamn house yourself though.
through conning a disabled man
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Yes, but are they fucking them in some crazy way, or is this old man just doing what is often done by people are capable of it?
With severe short term memory loss, I would say this is a fringe case where landlording is fair enough.
Maybe he did it back when landlording wasn’t his only means of income - I don’t know. It doesn’t matter to me because he probably wasnt educated about why landlording is exploitative. It’s sadly a normal thing to do, and sort of a natural reaction to alienation from normal labour for many people who again, are totally uneducated on the topic and inundated in capitalist realism. The chances are, elderly man was and is just some guy. Now he’s some guy with no alternative means of income possible. Not inherently evil, and in my eyes deserving of compassion. It doesn’t sound like he owns a whole raft of properties.
Slaves using their elderly slaver’s dementia to their advantage is bad if slavery is normal in that society, I guess
clearly not the same thing
Does something immoral become moral because a disabled person is doing it? Wouldn’t tricking an able bodied/minded landlord into giving up their property be good? Or do you think we have to just be better than our enemies at all moments?
Landlords delenda est
The weird thing about morality is that depending on the circumstances, the same action can become more or less justified.
An able-bodied landlord, at worst, would still be able to get a job like the rest of us. This man is entirely dependent on the income the property provides and has no way to augment his income at this point. The stock market is also unethical, would you feel the same if his 401k got signed over to someone? The answer is the dissolution of these predatory means of ownership while ensuring a good standard of living for everyone. Not taking an disabled, eldery man’s main source of income for your personal gain.
The tenant is not some hero of the working class fighting against the landlords. They’re most likely some shithead swindler who would have stolen someone’s primary residence if they thought they could get away with it.
Why are we believing the best in the landlord’s kid and the worst in the tenet? If we are believing someone is acting in bad faith, why chose the exploited and not the exploiter?
All Landlords are Bad. I don’t make the rules, sorry
yes haha funny but the conditions are clearly different, this guy owns one property compared to a farmstead with acres and slaves and the ability to kill or take your daughter’s with impunity. If the state dispossessed the guy of his home to give him an actually social safety plan it would be completely fine.
What is this take? He can do the same as anyone in his position who doesn’t own an extra house does. Why should some random person be expected to support him? The tenant could do more good donating the rent money to a charitable organization helping elderly in need - but then we should ask why we’re asking that of that tenant specifically. We don’t know what the elderly man’s financial situation looks like but it’s obviously not the tenant’s responsibility to support him.
This is only really available in hindsight. The old man doesn’t have the time nor money to figure out a new retirement strategy, especially if a rental property was just signed over. The best situation would be to sell the house and hopefully live off the investment from that until he passes. What’s not good is is removing a source of retirement income from someone when they don’t have a fallback.
Removing landlords as an occupation while ensuring a minimum standard of living is good. Swindling an old man out of his retirement plan for personal gain and possible throwing him into the streets without a safety net is not.
Absolutely ridiculous. That’s like saying we shouldn’t free elderly people’s slaves because they need them to care for them. The elderly man isn’t going to be “thrown into the streets” because he already has a home. Again, you have no basis to assume that this is his only source of income or that he doesn’t have sufficient savings. He at the very least has family, like the person who made this post.
And what about the tenant? For all we know they could be elderly and disabled too, only they weren’t rich enough to “plan for retirement” by setting up a situation where they can steal rent from someone else. They could be saddled with medical debt, they could be a single mother trying to support a family, if you get to speculate about the landlord’s situation then I get to speculate about the tenant’s.
Completely bizarre pro-landlord takes on Hexbear, can’t believe what I’m seeing. It’s not the tenant’s responsibility.
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