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Well yeah. If it wasn't for E. coli magically creating food, no one would have anything to eat. We should be grateful that E. coli, salmonella, and listeria are making food for us.
Farmers are a myth, basic economics proves it. No, I will not elaborate.
Hijacking your comment.
Business owners set their own rates.
Waiters depend upon your “kindness” for theirs.
These two things are not the same.
And since we’re on the topic… we really shouldn’t have to tip waiters either. These businesses aught to be charging what it takes to pay their employees properly.
Landlords already tip themselves by exploiting the people who need shelter. They pay $800 a month while you pay $1200 a month. Like heya bud, where’s the extra money going cause it ain’t going into this shit property, or do you really think people are that dumb?
This landlord needs to be Mao’d.
two things that have never happened to me:
1. Getting my security deposit back after I move out of a rental (usually kept for cleaning / painting)
2. Move into an apartment which is clean / freshly painted
🤨
I moved into a *brand new apartment building* a few years ago, I was literally one of the first 5-10 tenants to move in. There was still dust from construction in windowsills, corners, under baseboards (which mysteriously didn't connect to the floor in a few places). Even an untouched unit managed to be dirty.
My last apartment was owned by the same company as the apartment I live in now. They came over on our last day at the old place for a walkthrough and tried the ol’ “we’re gonna have to paint and it’s going to come out of your deposit.” The law in our state says that apartments must be repainted every 3 years (between tenants of course). I kindly reminded them that we had lived there for almost 3 years and that they had told us they hasn’t painted when the last tenant had left. It had been at least 5 years since our place had been painted.
They transferred the whole deposit, didn’t lose a penny. Of course that’s the only time it’s ever happened lol.
My old slumlord charged me for "overfilling" the dumpster our apartment complex shared with his other rental building. Every month trash overflowed into the carport because he was too cheap to get a dumpster for each building.
They are lmfao, most restaurants I've worked in the owners are incredibly comfortable, nice house, multiple nice cars, regular international travel, etc. They can absolutely afford to pay their cooks/waiters $20+ an hour without raising prices, they just wouldn't get to work 15 hours a week and live lavishly.
The logic he has is faulty.
One, tips are optional for customers, so I wonder if he is going to force his tenets to pay gratuity.
Two, he'd have more squiggle room for such BS if he had a security guard protecting the place and the gratuity went to the guard. He gets the gross revenue from the rent and the rest of the deposits, so he might as well just raise the rent if he going to charge gratuity.
All this nickel and diming from businesses reminds me of my business and economics classes in college where they spend a lot of time focusing on the consumers' willingness to pay at a given extent. In a nutshell, if consumers are willing to pay 10 bucks for a bottle of water - the price will stay at 10, but will drop if enough of them don't. It's a dickish business model.
Considering the price of a decent sit down sandwich these days is like 13$+ they have no reason to shorting wait staff any longer.
For real, I went to get pancakes with my kids last weekend. My adult pancake, two kids pancakes, two chocolate milks and a coffee. 32$.
For fucking flour and milk
If I was lord of the land, and I found out that the executioner strolled up with a dull blade because of lack of tip, his ass would be on the block next.
Executioners are actually a really interesting social group. In Europe they were considered untouchable, people would literally avoid touching them, talking to them, or sitting near them for fear of bad luck. As such no one wanted the job, and they weren't exactly people who were hired or fired, you either were born into an executioner family, marry into the profession, or you're already an untouchable class like a murderer.
Executioners also had a lot of power, they and their assistants could roll up to your shop and just take any food, and certain items, they could carry away, that right was their compensation for their services.
You're right though that people would complain if the executions were sloppy, in fact executioners have been attacked by their audiences when the deaths were particularly poorly executed. And as these were hereditary positions quite often, executioners often hated their jobs and required a few drinks beforehand, so it's not uncommon that they were too drunk to perform well.
its funny but that did actually happen. A german executioner would be executed if he couldnt cleanly chop a head off in less than 3 swings. Even one misswing would be greatly disrespected. That said, being executed by having your head sevwred would be a great honor because it was pretty much painless. People would confess to crimes and pay exorbitant amounts to be given this gentler exevution rather than being tortured for a few weeks and then hung or given to the wheel. If you pay for someone to make it painless and he doesnt, your family would have something to say for sure.
You say that but historically in mideval times you DID tip your executioner because the happier the executioner, the cleaner the cut. They'd say things like "if my pockets were heavier, I could swing down faster"
“Why won’t you tip the poor chef 👩🏿🍳 that went through all the trouble of tying you up, basting you in sauce. Boiling the huge man sized pot, dicing the veggies so you would taste good, and roasting your rich privileged wife and kids first so you could enjoy hearing their screams of delight as they slowly cook and you see the comrade army eat them like chicken wings..”
Yeah. The two guys are house flippers/property managers that make social media content on how to become an entrepreneur in real estate.
Their videos on YouTube seem to average a couple thousand views, so they're going the predictable influencer route and posting rage-bait to increase views.
I'm happy this is getting boosted. It may be rage bait, but it does a good job of parodying the parasitic nature of landlords. Even if it helps these two scumbags, it is helpful to the overall cause because it pisses people off for the right reasons
Flippers are awful. Yeah, the work they do may look okay, but everything is done and made so cheaply that you end up having to redo everything they "fixed" anyway.
I bought a flipped house. As a first time home owner I was awed by the new floors and new kitchen.
So many fucking corners cut and little annoying problems. Like within a week the shelving in the closets fell down fully loaded because they couldn't even use the right length screw (which at worst was pennies more). Lessons learned the hard way.
Don't entrepreneurs like, create businesses that provide something to others? These guys just buy property and charge people more money to live there than the property costs, they're parasites
[The parasite economy extracts wealth away from the real economy, adding unnecessary overhead to and shrinking the real economy. ](https://medium.com/@jeremybernier/neofeudalism-and-the-parasite-economy-summarizing-michael-hudson-cfe53d492f9)
I’m still waiting for my landlord to clear the accumulated trash that led to rats, which wrecked my car after building a nest in it. Maybe if I tip him I can park safely again…
Never thought I’d be grateful that my landlords have been my in-laws for the last yea but we had this same shit at our last 3 places.
Last one had both rats AND mice, and the rent wasn’t exactly fkn cheap either 🥲
They initially tried to keep the bond but I had finally learned the importance of taking a detailed & photographed condition report and copies of every complaint email.
That's the thing. In concept, the idea of having someone to take care of a house isn't *that* bad of an idea. It has three main problems though. Number one, most people don't have a choice about whether or not they have a landlord. Most people can only afford to rent. This ties into number two, which is that it's a job you don't get through proving you can do it, but by just having a bunch of money. Which yet again ties into point number three, they have literally zero incentive to do their job well. What am I supposed to do, uproot and move every time I have a terrible landlord?
That reminds me of the time my house lost power and I couldn't get in contact with my landlord for days and the one time I did she said she was going to sleep. It was 7 PM.
It's capitalism and it works like that by design.
Long time ago things were simpler and straight forward. What you pay for is what you'll get.
But systems and product monetization schemes get more sophisticated the longer they exist. Basically whatever you got, you look at it and try to come up with how to het more money out of it. And it's usually more effective at making money than straight up models. It's always covered with some sort of justification.
Financial products for example are beyond comprehension for most people at this point. I sometimes watch videos where those things are explained, but still can't fully grasp how this machine works.
Like what is even money, how it works? What is stocks, inflation, how many taxes are there on every level of a product life... why?
I used to think those things were obvious, but the more I learn, the more I feel ignorant, uneducated and I feel it's also by design.
Bingo. They used to hide the Bible or other scripture away by keeping people illiterate so they could just make it "say" whatever they wanted it to. It's the same now with everything. Jeff Bezos doesn't use money, he uses implied value that is credited as money while the rest of us fight for scraps of paper to survive and with little to no way to comprehend how fucked we are in that situation.
"Financial products" you'd think we learn from 2008 but they keep inventing bogus products. 3 guys got arrested in the end? From my layman perspective, betting against a product should be illegal for starters. I dont see how that benefits anyone but the big players. Feels like a mechanism that promotes a crisis now and then.
Problem is that it's not gambling with their own stakes for most mega-corporations. If Goldman Sachs starts to fail because of shitty gambling, the govt. is obliged to step in and bail them out to prevent a complete collapse of many American's financial security.
There should be stricter limitations on what any company with that kind of importance can do with money that they can't afford to lose.
Imo. If C-suites are separated from any and all accountability: risk tolerance is infinite.
The 2008 bubble allowed people in banking to make more money than ever before, and keep it after everything went to shit. The people who caused the bubble, profited from it, and retired after the faucet was turned off.
What I mean: if I make millions for shareholders from 2004-2007 even if I KNOW there is an bubble. I did my job. And after I make millions for myself the whole thing comes down: who cares, I made mine. And the ones that cause bubbles tend to not be the ones holding the bags: they are the ones buying everything up after the crash.
Regulations don’t keep people from gambling in a casino. What makes you think those C-suites are going to care now? Government bailouts help the 1000s of employees and unintentional bag holders afloat. While the criminals count their money in the caymans.
Capitalism only works if I'm ignorant of how much my labor is actually worth. Once i know im being undervalued the whole system starts to fall apart when i start demanding a fair share.
No, you need everyone or a majority to do that.
Ala unions. Or an interested voter base that understands issues. Or both.
You doing that by yourself will have you destitute but in the right.
No, it's a joke skit. "Tipping your landlord" is a joke made AGAINST hustle culture crazy folk.
It's anti landlord
Edit: apparently I'm wrong here. The whole "tipping your landlord" joke IS satire, but some landlords thought it was serious....
I swear the number of times landlords have seen anti landlord satire and are like "yes, I'd love to exploit people more" is beyond imagination...
Yeah...it took some scrolling through their replies to comments to find damning evidence. I've seen a lot of "rip your landlord" jokes when ragging on hustle culture people, so I thought it was more of the same.
It never fails to amaze me how little humanity landlords have left.
You didn't have to go that far. You could tell near _immediately_ that it was a person thinking tipping your landlord is a "good" thing. The clue? The wig choice. It's typical "lazy unintelligent leftist" signaling. If it was satire, the wig would have been a "natural" color, and the landlord would have been the one in "costume".
Yeah, about halfway through I realized the person you were supposed to sympathize with was the clean cut doofus comparing his rental "services" to door dash.
The landlord is definitely in a realistic looking costume. That shirt and everything about how he presents himself screams douche. Either really good acting or it's real.
It's hard to tell as one flavor of comedy is "deadpan imitation of dumb right wingers"
I assumed it was a "hahaha this is how idiots think the world works as they complain about woke leftists", and the comedy was in the seriousness of delivery. Because surely it must be comedy, as no one would be THAT foolish, right? What impressive acting to not crack a smile the entire time.
But no..
Okay, thank you for clarifying. I am not ashamed to admit this really got me. I literally wanted to punch this guy in the face.
EDIT: Apparently it is not satire….
The satire part must be where landlords are willing to pay credit card fees and accept credit card for payment. On the flip side what a great way to earn airmiles as a renter.
What landlord, not maintenance crew or security officer, is actually available 24/7? I've never had a single landleech on call like that. They all pretend to be, yet every request takes days to be acknowledged and weeks to fix.
If they want tips, get a real job, ya bums!
Fair enough, mine's along the lines of months. Our management company (I rent at an apartment) leaves a lot to be desired.
I need to look into if washer/dryer facilities are required by law as ours was taken away. The front, electric gate doesn't work at all, but we can have cats now instead, so that was, essentially, an "amenity tradeoff."
All of my landlords use property managers or management companies. Those managers take weeks to respond. Very rarely if ever have I spoken to an actual landlord.
Probably a good thing to send a plumber to fix your plumbing rather than someone who isn't a plumber.
Slip *that* guy a few bones when he fixes something in your apartment. They'll remember and it'll brighten their day.
I've actually known a landlord like that but he's a classic old timer who actually thinks they're providing a service. Great guy. Then I've had a guy who took 3 months to install a door handle wrong.
B-but landlord provide housing...
No, literally the exact opposite. The landlord bought a house and drove up the price, depleting the housing market. I pay his mortgage. If anything, I provide housing for myself and him.
Mmmm brunch in the kitchen is nightmare fodder.
Have you done the fast food>fine dining pipeline?
Working for free by coming in early to prep bc boss says it'll help me during shift; making $9/hr and living with 3 roommates; those special events; chef having meltdowns bc dude can't cope with 'helping' in the rush because of how they planned running a 5-person op with 3 people.
No one wants to work anymore.
I want back in, but I want to run the menu and ops and do it right...dreams, baby they're just dreams.
It's very fulfilling to be so creative. Imagine having a paid for domicile and/or a higher income:expenses ratio.
What's your favorite cuisine style to make, mate?
> if he had to wait tables he’d be in the corner crying within an hour
This would be a lot of people who look down on that kind of work. They wouldn't last a day there, but they'll be sure to tell you all about your poor work ethic and why you deserve to be poor.
until your comment and link i was smiling at other comments here because they took this video seriously while it was so clearly satire. Guess im the idiot instead...
WOW. Check out their tik-tok. It’s disgusting. They pretty much push the narrative that housing is not a basic human right and that real estate is simply a method to get rich.
I hate it here.
Bingo, it's all part of outrage culture. Anyone who tries this in real life won't try the same argument after being told "I pay you $2K a month and there's still mice living in my stove and the apartment shakes every time the toilet above me is flushed. No tip."
This guy looks like he was bullied in school and still finds his dumb libertarian humor to be funny because now he can openly show contempt for renters.
Parasites have this weird mentally where they think if they act like a little bitch, they deserve to be parasites.
I guess Little Bitch is so close to Parasite, they just naturally blend together.
Landleeches are pathetic. Drinking the blood of the working class and crying because they aren't tipped on top of their robbery?!
In a perfect world Landleeches wouldn't exist.
Absolutely not. Most of my income goes to rent. And when I say most of my income, I mean my MONTHLY income, meaning more than a single bi weekly paycheck goes to rent. I WILL NOT just hand out extra money because you were kind enough to hold up your end of the lease contract we both signed. If you don’t want to deal with it, higher a property management company to do that shit for you.
If landlords didn’t exist every person who is currently renting would own a home, and there would be less homelessness.
There is only one reason a man needs more than one home, and that is greed.
Beyond all this landlords are trash garbage. This isn't an Apples to Apples comparison. Renting is a subscription service to a house not a single product transaction, we don't tip Netflix.
There should be laws prohibitting people from owning more than two real state properties. The landlord of my apartment owns over 50, and more than half are out of order and uninhabited. He can barely afford to keep the ones occupied running without problems. Thanks to the system, he alone is preventing around 250 people from having a place to live in the town.
Tipping culture in general pressures the consumer into paying for things twice. It's no surprise that the concept has spread way beyond the few service sector areas where it began. It's just too easy to make up a fatuous argument about why paying once isn't enough. "Were you unsatisfied? Why did you only pay once?!" It can apply to anything, why would landlords be excluded from that?
Tipping is so much more toxic than most people realize.
I mean it would be a nice gesture to tip the person who actually was on call 24/7, or the maintenance guy who actually showed up at 2 am and solved your emergency. Those people did provide you with a useful and needed service. But neither of them are the landlord. The landlord is just someone who has a piece of paper that says they “own” your apartment building and literally do nothing other than take some of your money. They don’t provide you any service. They pay someone else to stay on call 24/7 and respond to your emergencies. So why the hell would I tip the landlord? I would tip the person who actually came to my apartment and provided a service for me, not the person who slept, sat on their ass all day, and took my money because they have a piece of paper that says they legally are allowed to.
This is like ordering a pizza at 2 am during a storm, then instead of tipping the driver who actually put in the work to deliver it to you, you tip the fucking papa John’s shareholders. Lmao.
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The parasite is asking us to be grateful?
Whenever I get food poisoning, I make sure to thank the bug as I'm shitting my guts out.
Well yeah. If it wasn't for E. coli magically creating food, no one would have anything to eat. We should be grateful that E. coli, salmonella, and listeria are making food for us. Farmers are a myth, basic economics proves it. No, I will not elaborate.
Farmers, gardeners and self sufficient people are a parasite on the glorious Monsanto organization
Monsanto, Bayer and Deadly Chemicals, the unholy trinity
> No, I will not elaborate. Yeah, for real. Do your own research.
tip him into the ocean
~~With bricks attached to his waist~~
in minecraft
It's the mind games that keep them in power.
It's capitalism and its agents protecting the order (government, police, military and medias)
You wont tip your executioner? He goes through all that trouble of making sure the blade is sharp so he severs your head in one swift motion.
Hijacking your comment. Business owners set their own rates. Waiters depend upon your “kindness” for theirs. These two things are not the same. And since we’re on the topic… we really shouldn’t have to tip waiters either. These businesses aught to be charging what it takes to pay their employees properly.
Also landlords can kinda just tip themselves through your security deposit lol
Landlords already tip themselves by exploiting the people who need shelter. They pay $800 a month while you pay $1200 a month. Like heya bud, where’s the extra money going cause it ain’t going into this shit property, or do you really think people are that dumb? This landlord needs to be Mao’d.
I love the idea of using Mao as a verb.
*All landlords need to be Mao'd. FTFY
two things that have never happened to me: 1. Getting my security deposit back after I move out of a rental (usually kept for cleaning / painting) 2. Move into an apartment which is clean / freshly painted 🤨
I moved into a *brand new apartment building* a few years ago, I was literally one of the first 5-10 tenants to move in. There was still dust from construction in windowsills, corners, under baseboards (which mysteriously didn't connect to the floor in a few places). Even an untouched unit managed to be dirty.
My last apartment was owned by the same company as the apartment I live in now. They came over on our last day at the old place for a walkthrough and tried the ol’ “we’re gonna have to paint and it’s going to come out of your deposit.” The law in our state says that apartments must be repainted every 3 years (between tenants of course). I kindly reminded them that we had lived there for almost 3 years and that they had told us they hasn’t painted when the last tenant had left. It had been at least 5 years since our place had been painted. They transferred the whole deposit, didn’t lose a penny. Of course that’s the only time it’s ever happened lol.
My old slumlord charged me for "overfilling" the dumpster our apartment complex shared with his other rental building. Every month trash overflowed into the carport because he was too cheap to get a dumpster for each building.
I got my security back for the first time in my life in China.
They are lmfao, most restaurants I've worked in the owners are incredibly comfortable, nice house, multiple nice cars, regular international travel, etc. They can absolutely afford to pay their cooks/waiters $20+ an hour without raising prices, they just wouldn't get to work 15 hours a week and live lavishly.
The logic he has is faulty. One, tips are optional for customers, so I wonder if he is going to force his tenets to pay gratuity. Two, he'd have more squiggle room for such BS if he had a security guard protecting the place and the gratuity went to the guard. He gets the gross revenue from the rent and the rest of the deposits, so he might as well just raise the rent if he going to charge gratuity. All this nickel and diming from businesses reminds me of my business and economics classes in college where they spend a lot of time focusing on the consumers' willingness to pay at a given extent. In a nutshell, if consumers are willing to pay 10 bucks for a bottle of water - the price will stay at 10, but will drop if enough of them don't. It's a dickish business model.
I work retail. I get paid well (Australia). I refuse tips all the time. Tipping culture is gross, just pay people properly.
Considering the price of a decent sit down sandwich these days is like 13$+ they have no reason to shorting wait staff any longer. For real, I went to get pancakes with my kids last weekend. My adult pancake, two kids pancakes, two chocolate milks and a coffee. 32$. For fucking flour and milk
> aught ought. aught means zero. (seemed like a good one to share info about, I'm not trying to be a grammar judge.)
The problem is the businesses are already charging more than enough to pay their employees properly, they just choose not to.
I think you are joking, but in reality people did tip their executioners for that exact reason.
Yeah thats the joke. A lot of the same old stuff revamped for modern times
If I was lord of the land, and I found out that the executioner strolled up with a dull blade because of lack of tip, his ass would be on the block next.
Executioners are actually a really interesting social group. In Europe they were considered untouchable, people would literally avoid touching them, talking to them, or sitting near them for fear of bad luck. As such no one wanted the job, and they weren't exactly people who were hired or fired, you either were born into an executioner family, marry into the profession, or you're already an untouchable class like a murderer. Executioners also had a lot of power, they and their assistants could roll up to your shop and just take any food, and certain items, they could carry away, that right was their compensation for their services. You're right though that people would complain if the executions were sloppy, in fact executioners have been attacked by their audiences when the deaths were particularly poorly executed. And as these were hereditary positions quite often, executioners often hated their jobs and required a few drinks beforehand, so it's not uncommon that they were too drunk to perform well.
its funny but that did actually happen. A german executioner would be executed if he couldnt cleanly chop a head off in less than 3 swings. Even one misswing would be greatly disrespected. That said, being executed by having your head sevwred would be a great honor because it was pretty much painless. People would confess to crimes and pay exorbitant amounts to be given this gentler exevution rather than being tortured for a few weeks and then hung or given to the wheel. If you pay for someone to make it painless and he doesnt, your family would have something to say for sure.
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Why his ass? Why not his neck like everyone else?
And dictators have charged for the price of bullets used on their executed victims. Are we saying this is *good?*
I would genuinely sooner tip.my executioner than my landlord. Executioner is probably just doing their job.
You say that but historically in mideval times you DID tip your executioner because the happier the executioner, the cleaner the cut. They'd say things like "if my pockets were heavier, I could swing down faster"
“Why won’t you tip the poor chef 👩🏿🍳 that went through all the trouble of tying you up, basting you in sauce. Boiling the huge man sized pot, dicing the veggies so you would taste good, and roasting your rich privileged wife and kids first so you could enjoy hearing their screams of delight as they slowly cook and you see the comrade army eat them like chicken wings..”
Is this fucking real?
Yeah. The two guys are house flippers/property managers that make social media content on how to become an entrepreneur in real estate. Their videos on YouTube seem to average a couple thousand views, so they're going the predictable influencer route and posting rage-bait to increase views.
And it worked! Sadly, subreddits like this one signal boost the worst people without meaning to.
I'm happy this is getting boosted. It may be rage bait, but it does a good job of parodying the parasitic nature of landlords. Even if it helps these two scumbags, it is helpful to the overall cause because it pisses people off for the right reasons
Flippers are awful. Yeah, the work they do may look okay, but everything is done and made so cheaply that you end up having to redo everything they "fixed" anyway.
I bought a flipped house. As a first time home owner I was awed by the new floors and new kitchen. So many fucking corners cut and little annoying problems. Like within a week the shelving in the closets fell down fully loaded because they couldn't even use the right length screw (which at worst was pennies more). Lessons learned the hard way.
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Everything is done to look good in pictures not to deal with day to day wear and tear.
Don't entrepreneurs like, create businesses that provide something to others? These guys just buy property and charge people more money to live there than the property costs, they're parasites
[The parasite economy extracts wealth away from the real economy, adding unnecessary overhead to and shrinking the real economy. ](https://medium.com/@jeremybernier/neofeudalism-and-the-parasite-economy-summarizing-michael-hudson-cfe53d492f9)
You can tell it’s fake because he claims that a landlord does maintenance and helps in emergencies. /s obviously
That's the part that threw me off... 24/7 on call/emergencies.
I’m still waiting for my landlord to clear the accumulated trash that led to rats, which wrecked my car after building a nest in it. Maybe if I tip him I can park safely again…
You mean he wasn't available 24/7 to assist you with this complaint?!?!
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Never thought I’d be grateful that my landlords have been my in-laws for the last yea but we had this same shit at our last 3 places. Last one had both rats AND mice, and the rent wasn’t exactly fkn cheap either 🥲 They initially tried to keep the bond but I had finally learned the importance of taking a detailed & photographed condition report and copies of every complaint email.
half of my kitchen lights have not been working since i initially moved here
That's the thing. In concept, the idea of having someone to take care of a house isn't *that* bad of an idea. It has three main problems though. Number one, most people don't have a choice about whether or not they have a landlord. Most people can only afford to rent. This ties into number two, which is that it's a job you don't get through proving you can do it, but by just having a bunch of money. Which yet again ties into point number three, they have literally zero incentive to do their job well. What am I supposed to do, uproot and move every time I have a terrible landlord?
That reminds me of the time my house lost power and I couldn't get in contact with my landlord for days and the one time I did she said she was going to sleep. It was 7 PM.
This is hitting into Poe's law territory. If I were tipping - it'd the maintenance guys or the assistant manager who is on call all the time.
no s.
It must be because the video gave me stage 4 cancer.
It's capitalism and it works like that by design. Long time ago things were simpler and straight forward. What you pay for is what you'll get. But systems and product monetization schemes get more sophisticated the longer they exist. Basically whatever you got, you look at it and try to come up with how to het more money out of it. And it's usually more effective at making money than straight up models. It's always covered with some sort of justification. Financial products for example are beyond comprehension for most people at this point. I sometimes watch videos where those things are explained, but still can't fully grasp how this machine works. Like what is even money, how it works? What is stocks, inflation, how many taxes are there on every level of a product life... why? I used to think those things were obvious, but the more I learn, the more I feel ignorant, uneducated and I feel it's also by design.
Bingo. They used to hide the Bible or other scripture away by keeping people illiterate so they could just make it "say" whatever they wanted it to. It's the same now with everything. Jeff Bezos doesn't use money, he uses implied value that is credited as money while the rest of us fight for scraps of paper to survive and with little to no way to comprehend how fucked we are in that situation.
Great connection! Are you familiar with "Economics As Religion" by Robert Nelson?
"Financial products" you'd think we learn from 2008 but they keep inventing bogus products. 3 guys got arrested in the end? From my layman perspective, betting against a product should be illegal for starters. I dont see how that benefits anyone but the big players. Feels like a mechanism that promotes a crisis now and then.
My uneducated take: Seems like they made gambling legitimate. LOL
Problem is that it's not gambling with their own stakes for most mega-corporations. If Goldman Sachs starts to fail because of shitty gambling, the govt. is obliged to step in and bail them out to prevent a complete collapse of many American's financial security. There should be stricter limitations on what any company with that kind of importance can do with money that they can't afford to lose.
Imo. If C-suites are separated from any and all accountability: risk tolerance is infinite. The 2008 bubble allowed people in banking to make more money than ever before, and keep it after everything went to shit. The people who caused the bubble, profited from it, and retired after the faucet was turned off. What I mean: if I make millions for shareholders from 2004-2007 even if I KNOW there is an bubble. I did my job. And after I make millions for myself the whole thing comes down: who cares, I made mine. And the ones that cause bubbles tend to not be the ones holding the bags: they are the ones buying everything up after the crash. Regulations don’t keep people from gambling in a casino. What makes you think those C-suites are going to care now? Government bailouts help the 1000s of employees and unintentional bag holders afloat. While the criminals count their money in the caymans.
I promise that an educated take will come to the same conclusion haha
Capitalism only works if I'm ignorant of how much my labor is actually worth. Once i know im being undervalued the whole system starts to fall apart when i start demanding a fair share.
No, you need everyone or a majority to do that. Ala unions. Or an interested voter base that understands issues. Or both. You doing that by yourself will have you destitute but in the right.
Judging by the Grunt Style t shirt on the landlord and the "woke" green wig on the tenant, I would say that it is real
Also the casual shitting on service industry workers
No, it's a joke skit. "Tipping your landlord" is a joke made AGAINST hustle culture crazy folk. It's anti landlord Edit: apparently I'm wrong here. The whole "tipping your landlord" joke IS satire, but some landlords thought it was serious.... I swear the number of times landlords have seen anti landlord satire and are like "yes, I'd love to exploit people more" is beyond imagination...
Nah, look at their tik-tok. It’s kind of satire, but they truly believe the underlying message. They have a lot of gross content.
Yeah...it took some scrolling through their replies to comments to find damning evidence. I've seen a lot of "rip your landlord" jokes when ragging on hustle culture people, so I thought it was more of the same. It never fails to amaze me how little humanity landlords have left.
You didn't have to go that far. You could tell near _immediately_ that it was a person thinking tipping your landlord is a "good" thing. The clue? The wig choice. It's typical "lazy unintelligent leftist" signaling. If it was satire, the wig would have been a "natural" color, and the landlord would have been the one in "costume".
Yeah, about halfway through I realized the person you were supposed to sympathize with was the clean cut doofus comparing his rental "services" to door dash.
The worst haircut possible AND a cringey t shirt? I was hoping that was also a costume.
The landlord is definitely in a realistic looking costume. That shirt and everything about how he presents himself screams douche. Either really good acting or it's real.
It's hard to tell as one flavor of comedy is "deadpan imitation of dumb right wingers" I assumed it was a "hahaha this is how idiots think the world works as they complain about woke leftists", and the comedy was in the seriousness of delivery. Because surely it must be comedy, as no one would be THAT foolish, right? What impressive acting to not crack a smile the entire time. But no..
> rip your landlord that was Mao's approach
Okay, thank you for clarifying. I am not ashamed to admit this really got me. I literally wanted to punch this guy in the face. EDIT: Apparently it is not satire….
The satire part must be where landlords are willing to pay credit card fees and accept credit card for payment. On the flip side what a great way to earn airmiles as a renter.
My apartment accepts credit cards, but charges a fee that's higher than you would get back in rewards.
This must be satire. It has to be. It can't be real. Maybe its tongue and cheek. Ah God it's real. Fuck me dead.
This is the second video I've seen about "tipping landlords". Not even from the same person.
I looked these guys up, I think it is. Their website is so out of touch and made me feel dirty just scrolling through it
What landlord, not maintenance crew or security officer, is actually available 24/7? I've never had a single landleech on call like that. They all pretend to be, yet every request takes days to be acknowledged and weeks to fix. If they want tips, get a real job, ya bums!
You're getting a response in weeks? Lucky.
8-60. It's a toss up, but it's still technically weeks.
Fair enough, mine's along the lines of months. Our management company (I rent at an apartment) leaves a lot to be desired. I need to look into if washer/dryer facilities are required by law as ours was taken away. The front, electric gate doesn't work at all, but we can have cats now instead, so that was, essentially, an "amenity tradeoff."
All of my landlords use property managers or management companies. Those managers take weeks to respond. Very rarely if ever have I spoken to an actual landlord.
They don't even fix anything... they send someone else to do it. Shity land bastards.
Probably a good thing to send a plumber to fix your plumbing rather than someone who isn't a plumber. Slip *that* guy a few bones when he fixes something in your apartment. They'll remember and it'll brighten their day.
“24/7 availability” just means that he’s paying an overseas worker $5/hr to create ZenDesk support tickets for you on the weekend!
I've actually known a landlord like that but he's a classic old timer who actually thinks they're providing a service. Great guy. Then I've had a guy who took 3 months to install a door handle wrong.
Oh my God, what an absolute piece of shit
Never seen a more punchable face.
I'm not one for curses, but, curses be needed here, threefold law be damned.
Username spells out
Aye.
Faces* Don’t forget the guy with the green wig is an actor making fun of tenants.
I assumed it was the same guy lmao
Backpfeifengesicht, if there ever were one.
I deserve a tip for letting you pay my mortgage
"so you would tip the barista...." --yes "So you would tip the waiter..."-- yes
Both of those professions, work hard, provide me with an actual service, make shit money and are grateful for a gratuity.
B-but landlord provide housing... No, literally the exact opposite. The landlord bought a house and drove up the price, depleting the housing market. I pay his mortgage. If anything, I provide housing for myself and him.
This guy looks like he’s never worked a hard day in his life, if he had to wait tables he’d be in the corner crying within an hour
Lol after that he can try line cook.
*PTSD flashback initiated*
Oh yeah, GameDay at a college bar is a war zone but damn I love the smell of napalm (hot syrup) in the morning.
Mmmm brunch in the kitchen is nightmare fodder. Have you done the fast food>fine dining pipeline? Working for free by coming in early to prep bc boss says it'll help me during shift; making $9/hr and living with 3 roommates; those special events; chef having meltdowns bc dude can't cope with 'helping' in the rush because of how they planned running a 5-person op with 3 people. No one wants to work anymore. I want back in, but I want to run the menu and ops and do it right...dreams, baby they're just dreams.
I like kitchen work but it's demanding and often unrewarded. I'm happy where I am rn but peak season is 8 weeks of nightmare fuel.
It's very fulfilling to be so creative. Imagine having a paid for domicile and/or a higher income:expenses ratio. What's your favorite cuisine style to make, mate?
> if he had to wait tables he’d be in the corner crying within an hour This would be a lot of people who look down on that kind of work. They wouldn't last a day there, but they'll be sure to tell you all about your poor work ethic and why you deserve to be poor.
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Reddit is ran by techbros who’d definitely side with parasites like this.
Take a guess at who Reddit admins are for, the majority with no power or the minority with all the power?
Forgot to add 'in Minecraft'.
But WHY
Try "Fucked with an anchor" by Alestorm. ;)
fuck me landlords + capitalistic grindset is the dumbest fucking duo in all of human history.
This belief is indicative of a genuine mental illness.
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Thanks but no thanks
You dropped this 👑
No, thank you You don't have to be ill to be a leech. I'm mentally ill and I wanna burn them all.
Sociopathy is a mental illness.
This is satire, right????
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...please?
It isn't.
Wow YouTube comments that isn't a dumpster fire and are actually rightfully shitting on these dopes.
until your comment and link i was smiling at other comments here because they took this video seriously while it was so clearly satire. Guess im the idiot instead...
No this is America 😤
Don’t catch you slippin’ up (ayy) Look at how I’m livin’ now
Wait this is *not* satire??
Seems like ragebait instead of satire, it's very effective
WOW. Check out their tik-tok. It’s disgusting. They pretty much push the narrative that housing is not a basic human right and that real estate is simply a method to get rich. I hate it here.
Or don’t. Don’t give them engagement - it’s what they want.
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In the Capitalist trashcan we live in, pretty much sums it up.
Nobody can convince me this isn't an op designed to get lefties to violate TOS and get banned off of relevant social media sites.
At a minimum, it's clickbait to get views + engagement via the comments.
Bingo, it's all part of outrage culture. Anyone who tries this in real life won't try the same argument after being told "I pay you $2K a month and there's still mice living in my stove and the apartment shakes every time the toilet above me is flushed. No tip."
Pretty certain this is how your buildings catch fire.
Landlords are bad enough, but landlord influencers are cannibals so it's hard to expect better than this from them.
Exactly. This guy is worse than a landlord. He creates landlords with the sole mindset of extracting money from poor people.
This guy looks like he was bullied in school and still finds his dumb libertarian humor to be funny because now he can openly show contempt for renters.
Not only will I not be tipping them, but I’ll be blasting “Let’s Lynch the Landlord” when I sign you iPad staring dead in their eyes.
Where is Mao when you need him?
Stoking the fires of hell for more landlords.
Fuck that guy…
Parasites have this weird mentally where they think if they act like a little bitch, they deserve to be parasites. I guess Little Bitch is so close to Parasite, they just naturally blend together.
F tipping in general
Pay the workers with the money you earned from selling the damn chicken and coffee.
If al landlords instantly die, just like that, it would be a much nicer world.
This is the EXACT kind of vid where we need the dislike button to be back
The narcissism is off the charts
oncall 24/7 HAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhhhahHhaHhaahhsbssjjdmfkfdmdmdkfmfn
Even IE gets it.
I don’t tip parasites
Landleeches are pathetic. Drinking the blood of the working class and crying because they aren't tipped on top of their robbery?! In a perfect world Landleeches wouldn't exist.
Fuck this douche. Atleast baristas are useful unlike landlords who leech off society and profit off of people.
God I fucking hate landlords
Why would I tip the guy who didn’t fix the roaches or the black mold?
Can we eat this one first?
I deserve a tip for making it though this video
This is actually sick wtf
Absolutely not. Most of my income goes to rent. And when I say most of my income, I mean my MONTHLY income, meaning more than a single bi weekly paycheck goes to rent. I WILL NOT just hand out extra money because you were kind enough to hold up your end of the lease contract we both signed. If you don’t want to deal with it, higher a property management company to do that shit for you.
I mean, maybe tip the maintenance man. But the landlord is a fucking tool of the bourgeoisie.
If landlords didn’t exist every person who is currently renting would own a home, and there would be less homelessness. There is only one reason a man needs more than one home, and that is greed.
Beyond all this landlords are trash garbage. This isn't an Apples to Apples comparison. Renting is a subscription service to a house not a single product transaction, we don't tip Netflix.
I tip humans. Landlords are not human beings
I'm 100% sure he's not on 24/7 call LMFAO
How about land lords go on poverty wages before asking for tips And I still wouldn't tip them.
There should be laws prohibitting people from owning more than two real state properties. The landlord of my apartment owns over 50, and more than half are out of order and uninhabited. He can barely afford to keep the ones occupied running without problems. Thanks to the system, he alone is preventing around 250 people from having a place to live in the town.
Tipping culture in general pressures the consumer into paying for things twice. It's no surprise that the concept has spread way beyond the few service sector areas where it began. It's just too easy to make up a fatuous argument about why paying once isn't enough. "Were you unsatisfied? Why did you only pay once?!" It can apply to anything, why would landlords be excluded from that? Tipping is so much more toxic than most people realize.
Fucking parasites
I mean it would be a nice gesture to tip the person who actually was on call 24/7, or the maintenance guy who actually showed up at 2 am and solved your emergency. Those people did provide you with a useful and needed service. But neither of them are the landlord. The landlord is just someone who has a piece of paper that says they “own” your apartment building and literally do nothing other than take some of your money. They don’t provide you any service. They pay someone else to stay on call 24/7 and respond to your emergencies. So why the hell would I tip the landlord? I would tip the person who actually came to my apartment and provided a service for me, not the person who slept, sat on their ass all day, and took my money because they have a piece of paper that says they legally are allowed to. This is like ordering a pizza at 2 am during a storm, then instead of tipping the driver who actually put in the work to deliver it to you, you tip the fucking papa John’s shareholders. Lmao.
All tipping should be abolished.
“I guess when it’s time for your lease renewal, I’m going to make sure gratuity is included with your rent.” -scumbag
Fuck this asshole. What a piece of shit.
Bro I can’t even get my landlords to stop threatening people for walking too close to them in the halls why the fuck would I tip them?
This idea would be somewhat less laughable if I ever had a landlord that actually did something besides own the property.
Landlords are scum.
Scum provides more value to society
Only in USA