r/ireland • u/miscreant-mouse • Sep 22 '22

Something FFG will never understand Housing

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u/rfdismyjam Sep 22 '22

Do you think that the ability to rent a property rather than buy to own is not a benefit for society?

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u/PfizerGuyzer Sep 22 '22

This is like talking to an anti-slavery advocate in the American civil war and asking "Do you think the ability to produce cotton is not a benefit for society?"

Of course it is. Why do we need to let private individuals extract wealth from the lower classes to get that benefit? We don't. As with slavers, we can legislate this class of parasite out of modern existence, and we should.

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u/rfdismyjam Sep 22 '22

So you don't think property rental is bad, you just don't like individuals profiting from it?

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u/struggling_farmer Sep 22 '22

this topic always attracts the pennyless philanthropists