I saw somewhere that the analogy was supposed to be “whoever got there first owned the land.” The idea I guess is that the landed gentry settled down on the land (subreddits) first, and now the subreddit is a dictatorship because the users could never vote on who their “landlords” are.

Yes, that analogy is also terrible, and it also goes to show that spez has no idea why people hate landlords.

Edit: everyone that’s replied to me has provided more reasons why it’s a stupid analogy, and that makes me happy :)