I have seen a meme inspired by Goya's Saturn, in which he is not a mythological god, but an owner. The most uncomfortable thing about the image is that this does not have to be an investment fund or a real estate magnate. It may be a family that sits down to dinner and complains about the state of housing in Spain, but the next day they set the price of their apartment and write up the conditions of the contract. We should not demonize those who own property, but neither should we pretend that individual decisions disappear when we talk about a collective problem. An abusive clause does not stop being abusive because it was written by an ordinary person, and an impossible rent does not weigh less because the person collecting it is not a large company. We have become accustomed to always looking for the culprit a little higher up. If we all point to Saturn, who admits that he can also wear his face?
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