>>8024>The person who did create the resource (house) transferred all those rights to the buyer in exchange for money. That's what buying is.Except that the investment of a landlord is primarily in the land. The location value isn't just generated by the house, but by the work of the community. A landlord buys a lot, or a building, in a city because there is already value in the city, because people have lived there, have built things, have labored, and that has created a place where people want to go. The landlord's role is to then come in and mooch up that value, and, often times, to strangle it.
>If you don't believe in property rights then we can settle this right now. Tell me your address and I will come over and take your stuff. Don't you dare call the police to enforce a "monopoly" for you.Even Marxists differentiate between private property and personal property. Occupation and use is a crucial determining factor here, and it's also the principal which Marxists use to determine who should own a factory.
If you come over and try to take anything I need to live, I won't need to call the police, but you will. However, if you were to try to take my factory, or emerald mine, or anything like that which I only own on paper, from a distance, to derive absentee profit from, on account of you being a factory worker or a miner or someone else laboring on site for my profit,
then the situation would be quite different. Without the police, I could hardly prevent those who produce the wealth I collect from taking ownership of that wealth and refusing to hand it over to me. It's much easier to say a man is the natural owner of his home than it is to say he is the owner of someone else's home, or of someone else's place of work, or of someone else's labor, yet when it comes time to determine who is in ownership of these things, who holds all the cards, the state always sides with the man who owns another's home on paper over the man whose home is the place he lives in real life, and the state seeks to reinforce the extortion of those with a great deal of unearned wealth over those who work for all they have and still have very little.
>What are you rambling about? Nobody is forcing you to give any money to landlords.This is a childish
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