Comments by "Stephen Walker" (@stephenwalker2924) on "Rent crisis: is it time to get rid of landlords?" video.

  1.  @davidz3879  "I'm not racist, but..."
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  2. A tale as old as time. Ah...
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  3. keep the supply low, keep the demand high. it's the oldest, most successful business model in the book...
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  4. influencers and snakeoil sellers have to pretend to be noble. it's in the sales pitch: class one, lesson one.
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  5. Housing benefit goes straight to Housing Associations/landlords because if it went into a lot of people's bank accounts first...many folks out there wouldn't pay their rent. It's because they don't trust you. Not because they love and adore you. But, hey, I'm glad your in a good place. Best of luck to you.
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  6. If someone invented a lightbulb which lasted a lifetime, even if it cost £100, sales of lightbulbs would grind to a halt in three months. If every little thing we bought, from cars to thumbtacks, lasted a lifetime...capitalism would likely grind to a halt too. You know all this. So why am I telling you this? Don't know. Just in a typing mood tonite...
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  7.  @davidz3879  what's wrong with drill music?!? apart from the inherent sexism and criminal-cheerleading materialism, I mean?
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  8. Trump?
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  9. I can hear the hollow halls of Tory Whitehall ringing with greedy, derisive chuckling as we speak...
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  10. That's the influencer bit. The landlord bit is almost an afterthought. Every time I see an ad on YouTube with some business person on it selling/telling me how they made all their millions...I ask myself: why are they telling ME how THEY earn a living? Why don't they just fook off and go and happily make their millions? Why is it so important that they run a short free course that shows ME how to earn what THEY earn? Why do THEY want to share all their money-making secrets with the world and ME? Then I say to myself: "oh, it's that BS-spouting snakeoil salesperson again..."
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  11. most landlords are reasonably decent, to be fair. it's the 20% or so who are not who are spoiling the game. and as you say, even decency has its limits when it comes to business...
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