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·
    30 days 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·
      30 days 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·
        30 days 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·
          30 days 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·
      30 days ago

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

    • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      29 days 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.