Teen Vogue op-ed calls for ending property rights, decries 'cruelty of payment-based housing'

The columnist says, 'basically we just need to abolish landlords' 

News August 07, 2020 Breck Dumas

Teen Vogue published an op-ed declaring that no one should have the right to own real property, pushing for the abolishment of landlords while decrying the "cruelty of payment-based housing."

What are the details?

Columnist Kandist Mallett warned that "an eviction crisis is coming" due to the heavy job losses resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, pointing to the toll on the U.S. as evidence of "the failures of capitalism."

"The pandemic didn't create this housing crisis, but it did further expose the cruelty of payment-based housing," Mallett wrote, arguing further:

Instead of seeing housing as a right and something that should not be commodified, the state enlists its own armed forces — sheriffs and police — to remove occupants from residences if they cannot pay rent. The lack of protections for non-landowners should be to no surprise from a country founded on the genocide and colonization of indigenous peoples.

Mallet closed her piece by saying, "We need a housing movement based on a rejection of the construct that any one person should own this earth's land.  "Teen Vogue promoted the op-ed on Twitter with an excerpt that reads, "While we're working to abolish the police, we must also work to dismantle what the police were put here to protect: property.'........"If my rent money is paying for my landlord's mortgage, shouldn't I be part owner?" ...........To Read More....

My Take - Property rights are foundational to a stable and successful economy.  One of the reasons Russia never advanced after the fall of the Soviet Union, and relies on energy production as the only real major source of capital for the nation, is they failed to create property rights.  Property rights is foundational to capital generation.  It creates potential, incentive, innovation, exploration of new directions of capital generation.  It inspires the enlightened self interest that builds massive potentials for capital generation.   

Their government still owns everything. The result is a society with no incentive and no motivation beyond three hots and a cot, and now that's disintegrating,  and guess what, Putin,  their new Czar, is not so popular now.  And it's going to get worse for Russia, China and the rest of the socialist world. America is done playing their lopsided game of international trade and economics.  

And so now these idiots want America to be Russia.  Hard to believe, but then again, it is "Teen Vogue", so why would we expect anything really intelligent.