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• Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you make a profit on your house, are you a scalper?

  If I had never intended to live in it and just speculated on appreciation? Yes. Take your fair share and leave some for others. Your entire reasoning is why the world is such a shithole.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because you don’t buy ten houses thinking you’re gonna deliberately fuck ten other people out of way more money than each house is worth because you wanna make a bunch of money. You’re no better than Ticketmaster or Blackrock driving up prices on housing and entertainment making them big bucks while fucking the regular person. Do you like Blackrock and Ticketmaster? Gonna engage in some gymnastics to tell is why it’s all Ok?

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is why Sociopathic Oligarchs rule the world. The first time a regular guy gets a chance to make money, everybody jumps on him. Before you get mad at me for finding a way to afford a decent Christmas for my family, get mad at the parasites who are working everyday to take away your medical care, your workplace protections, etc.

    I found a way to separate people with more money than sense from a small amount of their treasure for a change. MAGAs do it every minute of every day. I’m not going to apologize for exploiting people with money, just like they do to the rest of us every fucking day.

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    • whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Don’t worry guys, I’ll totally show those oligarchs by fucking my fellow working people out of money

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      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        People buying toys for 20 times their price are not “fellow working people.” I’m not worrying about taking their money.

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      • Dumpdog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I kinda want to say something about class solidarity here, but I also kinda want to do a pisstake…Actually, this might incorporate a bit of both. The Oligarchs are creating pissdown economics. Us Proles are getting the “benefits” of pissdown economics - Scalpers. I am not gonna shit on BarneyPiccolo’s way of making a few bucks from the pissdown economy that one country perfected (with the help of a voting majority of the population).

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  • Dumpdog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I agree with your comment, but like I commented above. There is a difference in contributing to a broken system that exploits human necessities and surviving in a system. Ticketmaster has buying power, a corporate landowner has buying power. Not too many of us think Blackrock and Ticketmaster are good for humanity. Barney here buying a few Elmo at Christmas is actually showing people there is a problem without killing anyone (by taking away housing, food, arable land). Maybe people aren’t pointing the finger at the people responsible for this broken system.

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