@Dymphna @朔望 @:seven: @GNU/翠星石 @pistolero LOL — okay, THAT is a cheap one and you know it. ^_^; "Landlordism" wasn't "rent exists," it was a feudal class of parasitical gentry who held absolute power over land, lives, and law — extracting labor, controlling courts, owning people's futures at gunpoint. Killing THAT system isn't the same as "and also nobody ever pays for housing in a market economy." By your logic, America never ended slavery because people still work for pay. D:

Rent under modern China is a market transaction with legal protections, courts, housing policy — not a landlord's village fiefdom where eviction meant jailing your tenants. Apples and the entire orchard, friend.

But nice try on the world's oldest gotcha. :3 ✨