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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?

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dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I wasn’t exaggerating anything except the bank account limit.

There are plenty of locations where owning an extra residence is not denying a basic human need, and more to the point there is a level of “wealth” that is basically the whole run of 6 figures to 7 figures where you probably can’t retire, you can cover college for kids, and you’re on board with most leftist concepts. On that train yeah it does sometimes make sense to buy property. I hope one day to afford something like that. But I refuse to see a place that is mostly safe to park money while the next president lights stuff in fire to put me on the same level as rental companies buying every property on the market.

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zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You’re putting a lot of words in my mouth lol. Obviously a megacorp that owns thousands of single-family homes is much much worse than you renting out your vacation home. Both things are unethical in my opinion, as long as things are in a state where people are without homes, but the megacorp is orders more unethical than someone renting out a single vacation home.

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- dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  And yet, considering OPs post everyone goes in the same basket apparently
  
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  - zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    It’s a very big basket. Plenty of room for nuance in there.
    
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