[quote=AN][quote=CA renter]
If the properties aren’t owned by the people who live in them, then the residents (productive workers) are giving up their wealth (earned income) to those who earn their money via capital vs. labor. As a general rule, those who earn their living via capital tend to be wealthier than those who earn their living via labor.
We need to determine if we, as a society, benefit more from having stable communities where the residents and local workers own their own homes, or if we benefit more from having legions of renters who pay most of their wages to the rentier class (landlords) who tend to have more capital than the people who live in those houses — which further exacerbates the growing wealth divide, and all the problems that go with it.[/quote]
Nothing you said has anything to do with rights. Society that’s the most free is best in my eyes. Freedom for the rich, the poor, the fat, the skinny, etc. There should never be a group that get singled out and have their freedom taken away from them. Which is why i think America is still the best country among the developed countries.[/quote]
IMHO, when workers are forced to give up most of their wages to a tiny group of people who control almost all of the world’s assets, they are not free.
