Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?

Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Doublenut@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What other things would you invest in?

  I’m not trying to be contrary to your comment I’m just legitimately curious as to what you might view as a similar investment. I can’t, at the moment, think of anything that would have a similar return structure that isn’t essentially doing the same thing. Hoarding a finite resource and charging a premium for its use.

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• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Your comment only argues it’s bad, which is not the question. The question is if it’s hypocritical.

  I agree with you that it’s bad, and also think it’s not hypocritical to e.g. campaign for making owning investment properties illegal while owning an investment property. You are still the bad guy here but it’s not hypocritical to want a world where the bad thing you are doing is is no longer a thing, if for example the person in question thinks it would be unfair for them to miss out on the investment “while everyone else is doing it”.

  Your are the bad guy but no, you are not a hypocrite.

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  • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah. It’s bad. Landowners are parasites. Do and contribute nothing. They are incentives to peddle in mosery.

    Housing should not be a commodity. It is a human right.

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What does that have to do with my comment? Again, the question is not whether it’s bad. It is, but it’s totally besides the point.

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      • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Should you shoot the innocents because everyone else is doing it?

        No. You’re either aligned with your values or a hypocrite.

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