🏚 Land-Lording Is a Crime Against Humanity (An Explanation in Memes)
Most people will only accept this truth when it's far too late
Marcus Licinius Crassus was the richest man in Rome.
But rather than actually working and creating new, valuable, useable wealth for others, Crassus just waited until Roman houses lit on fire, bought the still-blazing homes and surrounding properties at “firesale prices”, then made his 1,000 slaves put out the fires, re-build the houses, and leased them back to the poor victims at maximal rents.
The fact this was legal gives you an idea of how far into evil Rome had fallen.
The senate, equestrians, and landed gentry — just 3% of Romans — hoarded nearly all the land and assets, forcing the bottom 97% to waste their entire lives toiling in brutal rentership, debt peonage, and slavery.
Rome, like Greece before it, became an oligarchy ruled by rent-seekers, and it led to crushing austerity, revolts, wars, and ultimately the collapse of Rome into serfdom and feudalism.
If the collapse of antiquity sounds familiar, it’s because that’s where we’re headed:
Consider Canada, the most real estate-obsessed nation in the world: Four of the national party leaders, 75% of the provincial housing ministers, and 40% of all Members of Parliament are directly invested in real estate — and the rest are invested via their retirement and pension plans.
Or America, where taxpayers will be forced to pay more than $1 trillion in interest to banksters this year. (Enough to house nearly the entire nation.)
The business model is simple:
Hoard assets → glean maximal profits → hoard more assets by re-investing profits in outbidding workers → charge more to borrow than workers would’ve had to pay to own if rent-seeking was illegal → repeat until desperate people murder the rich.
This business model ensures that prices keep rising and quality of life keeps falling.
Some people are visual learners, so here’s what it looks like in real time…
This house-hoarder is making $27,000 per year but can’t be bothered to deal with the rodent infestation:
This house-hoarder is making $13,200 per year off a furnace room:
This house-hoard is making $10,200 per year off a closet:
This house-hoarder is making $16,200 per year off a fake “2 bedroom” basement:
Speaking of basements:
This house-hoarder is making $22,800 per year per bedroom:
This house-hoarder is renting the main floor to three people for $550/month each, so he’s making $19,800 just off the living room:
This house-hoarder wants to reap 37,800 post-tax dollars per year off a zero-bedroom condo:
Or how about paying $10,800/year for a bunk bed?
When single beds are renting for $10,800/year, it’s no wonder this house-hoarder wants to rent out this whole house for $300,000/year:
No longer able to afford a house, it’s forcing more families into going mobile:
Sadly, corporate-controlled governments are now using AI to crack down on mobile living in order to force people to keep renting:
Good news ladies! This house-hoarder will rent to you for cheap, but you’ll pay in other ways:
The picture on the left is Antebellum slave quarters. The picture on the right is of Silicon Valley “sleep pods.”
It’s forcing families to move into sheds:
No wonder families are now moving into parks:
We’re absolutely heading back toward Fourpence Coffin rentals like in Victorian times:
The good news is that all this rent-seeking is nudging the parasite markets to historic highs:
What happens when people just can’t afford to live anymore?
It destroys the real economy.
“It’s just supply and demand! Let the market decide!”
No.
It’s a rigged market that’s enslaving humanity and literally killing people.
Unearned profits are not more important than shelter hardship and homelessness.
Unearned profits are not more important than human health:
It’s a harsh truth, but here it is:
If you don’t think for-profit land-lording is evil, you are evil.
Don’t take my word for it.
It’s literally one of the only things that all sides of the political spectrum agree on:
In case you still don’t understand how useless house-hoarders are, maybe this will help:
Screenshot and timestamp this prediction:
The majority of voters will willfully ignore the historical truth that for-profit land-lording is a sin, crime, and the destroyer of civilizations until they wake up in a world where their mortgage and property taxes are so high that they’re forced into the rent trap and watch their life savings and work get blood-let by trillion-dollar investment vampires.
Suddenly, it will be obvious and self-evident to the majority of voters that for-profit land-lording is theft.
But by then, it will be too late, because deca-trillion-dollar private equity funds will own everything.
By the time the majority of voters are renters, it will be too late to vote out the landlords.
Unless Christians rise up and end this injustice now, the above scenario is guaranteed.
Watch Jared Brock’s documentaries about slavery and trafficking and read his myth-busting biography about Jesus’s politics, economics, and philosophy.
Well done. Super clear. The connection to Rome is fascinating. 97 percent (workers) were beholden to 3 percent (landlords), who probably just hired property managers (workers) and watched the money roll in on rentals. Are there any places that have outlawed non-public rentals?