Haven't defined the point I asked about where ownership of property becomes perverse

Ownership brings out the worst in people; the need to have, whilst others have not. It engenders greed, selfishness, & other more brutish traits of our animal past that never balance out for the common good, but only benefit of the few. But even those of us stuck in negative equity in areas impoverished by a completely unnecessary recession are only home owners because the alternative is unthinkable. But is that any excuse? In the four years we've lived here we've had 5 sets of tenants in the house next door, the landlord of which is just a bloke who happens to own a house - he couldn't give a shit about the comfort & wellbeing of his tenants, or even that of his property. Methinks the situation is hardly untypical in this noble grasping & unpleasant country of ours.

When the only vested interest is capital, humanity goes out of the window. Sad to say certain of the posts here display a similar lack of humanity in the face of what is a very deep concern for our common & collective wellbeing as a nation.