[alexashka]

I'm sure some slave owners were 'nice people'. Still slave owners, right?

But I treat my slaves better than everyone I know and I only have half a dozen! I don't only have slaves for profit!

Slave owners in the south were actually far more likely to be better people than today's landlords because they had far less choice but to compete with other people who engaged in slavery than landlords of today.

The 'only' strawman and the projections, oh my. 'Every accusation is a confession' remains true. 'Sucks to be them', 'inflicting them on the rest of us'. Gee, the person on the internet you know nothing about is 'inflicting harm' on society. Think of the landlord's feelings, they appear to be hurt! Look, he accused someone with an already high paying job who landlords in his free time of only caring about money! Only he said, does he not know that there can be multiple motivating factors? He said only fellas, only! I rest my case, only.

[Applejinx]

Landlords are slave owners? Gosh. On the bright side, who knew Hacker News was so revolutionary?

Alex, how do you interact with AI? I don't, 'cos I don't use it. Are you one of the people who eke out performance gains by threatening to shoot the AI's dog if it makes a mistake? Or are you one of the people who are prepared to accuse those people of doing literally the same thing as extorting living humans?

I stand by, sucks to be the critics to whom everything is dominance and profit and nothing else merits the slightest consideration.

And yikes whoo boy does it suck to be a person who argues 'back in the day the slave owners were nicer than landlords of today because they had to compete with other slave owners'. WOW. what?

[rurp]

Good lord, renting a property to someone who voluntarily signs a lease is equivalent to slavery?! Give me a break.

I will say you're doing an excellent job of backing up OPs post. There absolutely are people with an unhinged view of reality who will aggressively try to screw over people they think are in the "wrong" group.

Arguing that poor people never try to abuse the system is some serious ivory tower BS.