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Call it what you want. What you are doing is just taking a ‘holier than thou’ stance without actually doing anything to make yourself feel good about it. Prattling on on Reddit making out that private letting is the same as slavery is achieving absolutely nothing.

The fact is that you are paid proportionate to your value, in a non-emotional sense. Yes nurses and firefighters get paid less than hedge fund managers. There aren’t many hedge fund managers or people with the skills to do such a job and to get such a position would be incredibly competition. That’s not really the point though is it? My point is that not everyone can earn the same amount for millions of different reasons. Inevitably there will be disparity that means some people won’t be able to afford the top level accommodation.

If you compare normal jobs, the nurse is paid more than the secretary or the cleaner because that’s the price our society puts on their value, which is related to how rare their skill set. It takes longer to become a nurse than a cleaner. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it inevitable.

What on earth does wheelchair access have to do with your suggestion that the government steal private property from the owners (who paid for the property legally)? Just because there is quite rightfully legalisation to ensure disabled people have access, doesn’t make it right to steal private property in the name of the ‘greater good’ (as defined by you).

You seem to think just because you think something is right that it should be legislated, just because you say so. I disagree. Should I have the right to decide legislation? Given that we disagree quite a bit I’d suggest you wouldn’t like that. Ultimately, you think your perspective is ‘morally superior’ to mine, it isn’t. It’s just an opinion, just like mine.