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Originally Posted by andrewb
On 'profit'. You're talking as if it's evil or wrong.
Next you'll be outside the fruit and veg stalls on Accy market with your placards because some are making profit off the backs of people needing to eat.  |
Without wanting to patronise you Andrew, you're still very young and probably haven't had much first-hand experience of people trying to fleece you to feather their own nests. Assuming you aren't a homeowner, just wait till you become one and find your own attitude towards the way companies operate change dramatically.
A fruit trader is making a few pence at best on a bag of apples, which have to be fresh and the stall clean and inviting for people to spend their money there. He or she needs to work tirelessly and spend money in order to make a living.
A landlord can buy a house cheap, renovate it to minimal standards, rent it out (the going rate for a terraced house in Rishton is around £550 pcm) and at the moment do very little else except watch the money roll in. Calls for repairs to the house can (and do) go unanswered and families with no option are saddled with a substandard home.
There are some very good landlords out there who run their properties well and look after their tenants but the bad ones drag down the name of the good ones.
Strict regulation on this is the only way to reduce the number of rotten apples on this particular fruit stall.