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Seems like maybe reality is at odds with a generalization. Maybe every cop is not a bastard, every landlord is not an oppressive monster, and every person who makes more money than you is not a net drain on society.
Maybe you have just discovered something rare and elusive: nuance.
This post reads like a lefty caricature by someone hard right, esp the last sentence.
Cops are not necessary evil, but the system tends to corrupt people and turn them to bad cops, just as with any position of power.
Landlords... well it depends. Someone who saved up a bit of money and invest in a few properties for retirement fund, they aren't evil, just trying to survive.
Someone already rich and just want to buy up entire apartment buildings? Yea that seems a bit like excessive property hoarding, don't sympathize with those.
Thanks for some sanity here. Some of these comments are really bizarre.
Look, I get that the system is shitty and corrupt. I don't condone that and I agree it needs to change. But that doesn't mean that every single individual is a terrible person. Some people are too chronically online to understand that life is not black and white.