They shrunk their breakfast sausage product line and focus on grass fed meats.

Actually we’re using it quite the same as I wasn’t referring to price either.

Additionally the meme is disingenuous. Meant to appeal to emotion. What Elmo and Zoe are conveniently ignoring is that the party who is being provided with housing is the tenant.

Nor does investing in silver, or day trading, or charging interest, or option calls. yet this is how capitalism works. We do not live in a society where value is limited to tangible goods produced.

the most capitalistic thing someone can do: you use your money to get someone else to pay [you]. You [lower your overheads as much as] you can get away with, and when you actually [maintain or improve your assets], your [customers] get a [cost increase].

Your argument is more aligned to capitalism in general rather than something particular to landlording. Your argument is applicable to leased vehicles and other businesses as well. Your argument incorrectly rests on an assumption that landlords simply raise rent high enough to cover all their overheads, but like any other business, landlords are beholden to market rates. If the rent is too high, then you have a smaller pool of potential tenants and it’s less likely they will be long-term tenants. Also, if a landlord has mortgaged a house to rent out, it’s unlikely that the rent he can collect would come near to covering the sum of the mortgage, the rental-insurance costs, the property taxes, maintenance, and other services. Property taxes alone can be several month’s rent. Whenever someone assumes that mortgaged landlords are skating on rental income, I assume that someone doesn’t know the true costs of owning a house.

What’s really happening for mortgaged landlords is that they are using your rent to build equity in their investment faster than they could otherwise.

The prevalent anti-landlord sentiment seems mostly to stem from bad experiences, rising rental costs, and the notion that landlords are somehow “getting something for nothing”. Only the first two points are fair grievances. If you’re going to take it further and propose that the owner of an asset (real estate or otherwise) cannot hire their property out, then you are striking at Capitalism itself. If you then nuance your argument by proposing that housing is a special case, and that housing rentals should not be a thing because we all need houses, then you’re obliged to consider other businesses as well. One might consider owning a vehicle essential to life; should we do away with car rentals? After all, you’re paying Hertz’s overheads. Groceries? We all need to eat right?

Rent seeking does create value: it provides a place to live. That is tangible value. There is no “one time labor” in this equation. The landlord continually pays taxes, insurance, maintenance, and other regular outgoings regardless of whether he bought the house outright or not.

How do you know a tankie from a government paid shill like UniversalMonk?

What is a ‘tankie’?

Have you stopped to consider that labelling someone as the “enemy” is parlance mostly engaged in by conservatives? Progressives don’t usually think in those terms. To a progressive, you might be ignorant, misinformed, misguided, deluded, xenophobic, racist, or engaging in bad faith, but you are rarely the “enemy.” Even Trump himself although perhaps though of as an “enemy of democracy,” is not a personal enemy. Your response using that metaphor serves to highlight the conservative mind set of making it personal, and harboring an anger so deep that political disagreement is grounds for personal animosity and even violence.

Sorry pal. Harris gonna win.

You seem to think there are only two outcomes: completely forgotten, or remembered with profound sadness. Those are the self-imposed limitations of one who can’t come to terms with death. Choosing to forget loved ones is a slight to their entire existence. It’s time to realign your thinking. Remember those who have passed on with happiness and joy for what they were. Let their memory bring a smile to your face. That’s how I remember and how I hope to be remembered. Choose celebration not despair.

Simple words are more effective.

Exactly

Don’t use the term impacted when you mean affected. Use impacted only for when physical bodies collide. Never use bastardized variants of impact such as impacts, impactfullness, impactedly, etc.

Don’t use the term concept when you mean idea.

30 days was enough. Can you stop now?

It’s the latest fad challenge, navigating your way through cancerous web pages

Lingy with baked beans. Cut each bite and eat with fork. Run each bite in the bean slurry.

Pong.

With 2 jumps it is. Jump to calculated position of old ship. Load cryo beds onto new ship. Jump to destination.

Did you know that ketchup was invented in Ketchum? Now you do!