I am she and she is me. I hate doing laundry! My husband will attest and my kids will gladly back him up. I will also do everything it takes to keep us afloat financially!
That's not to say that the I would necessarily agree with my source's interpretation of the two versions of the engravings, but I do like the idea of hard work vs idleness and what it does to the human spirit. Note the differences in their faces. The "poorer" version looks so much happier.
(https://bq.blakearchive.org/12.4.labelle. Accessed December 29, 2022)
And because I like balance in everything I say and write - I feel that it must be said that I do not cotton to the ideas of Danish politician, Ida Auken, who infamously said "You'll own nothing and be happy" in a 2016 essay for the World Economic Forum (WEF). Anyone who even implies that I, or a vast majority of people, would prefer to rent - can go suck an egg.
Letting someone else hold ownership of the things that keep us sheltered, clothed, transported to livelihood, and fed - Over our very heads? The very thought is anathema. That alone is why you should never want to pay a landlord. Not because they are "blood suckers out to make a buck", but because you should want to take ownership yourself! Landlords and those who rent to others are in a position of power, but only because they worked to be there as a goal of their own. You could be in that position too.
I take serious issue with people who hate all landlords on principle. It's just wrong to hate a whole group like that. Read this discussion. It is rather tame as far as landlord venting goes. I was a rental property owner (I also do not like the word "Landlord"), and I was a damn good one. I did not have the heart for it. I won't go into a laundry list of complaints, but I had some doozies. I also had some really lovely people who lived in the little house I fixed up with my dad. I will never forget them. In the end, I sold the house - with zeal - because I could not wait to quit that job! Being a landlord forces you to get tough about that all important deadline - Rent. I hated being the bad guy. Chasing money is never a place I want to be in again, and if you think renting to people is easy, I invite you to give it a go. There are shysters and liars for every single well-meaning person out there.
Back on task - Landlords, yes as a group, likely get into the gig (much as I did) as a way to make some money. Having money (as I did not have a lot of in the end, but maybe others do), does not necessarily make you a happier person. More vacuous? Emptier? Able to skate by and ignore the more important things in life? Probably.
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