ID: A Sophie Labelle 4 panel comic featuring Stephie in different poses, saying:

Landlords do not provide housing.

They buy and Hold more space than they need for themselves.

Then, they create a false scarcity and profit off of it.

What they’re doing is literally the opposite of providing housing.

  • Phegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    98·
    1 month ago

    Don’t ever call what landlords do a service. They do it for profit. It’s not a service.

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      125·
      1 month ago

      Where the cinnamon toast fuck do you live where a service exchanged for money is not done for a profit? Does your town have a grocery store selling goods at exactly cost?

      • tmyakal@lemm.eeEnglish
        54·
        1 month ago

        Does your town have a grocery store selling goods at exactly cost?

        No, you’re describing a co-op. Which my town does have, right across the street from the for-profit grocery store.

        • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          42·
          1 month ago

          Ok good, so I guess the coop provides a service.

          How do you get your Internet? Is that a service to you or is someone making a profit? Or perhaps everyone in this sub lives in a communal utopia where services never turn a profit of any kind.

    • Tja@programming.devEnglish
      61·
      1 month ago

      So does a lawyer, a mechanic, a doctor or a delivery guy. They offer a service in exchange for money.

    • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 month ago

      As opposed to everyone else who actively seeks to make trades that are detrimental to them?

      “Service” and “for profit” are not antonyms, nor mutually exclusive.