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Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

It’s all.

Buying a house as an “investment” is what we call “scalping” in other businesses. Not to mention the fact that this type of buying worsens housing prices and increases homelessness for personal gain, even on a small scale.

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Allonzee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Exactly. Housing is finite and other people live here too.

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enbyecho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Buying a house as an “investment” is what we call “scalping” in other businesses.

Actually, it’s called capitalism. Buying anything and selling it at a profit increases prices. Strange… but true.

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- nomy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  An increasing number of Americans are beginning to see the problems inherent in capitalism.
  
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  - enbyecho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Indeed. And it’s been fascinating to see the logical inconsistency of “landlords bad but capitalism good”.
    
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