• AItoothbrush
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        162 years ago

        Soo ticket scalpers are better than landlords is what youre saying? Because id rather own something than rent something…

          • GrayoxOP
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            192 years ago

            They are both parasitic, thats the point of the meme r/whoosh

              • GrayoxOP
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                102 years ago

                Its ok, its not your faulth that your material conditions allowed this meme to go over your head like a jet liner. Thanks for your engagement tho! It really helped explain the context of the meme, if critical thinking waz easy everyone would do it. Lol

                • @[email protected]
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                  112 years ago

                  I’m sure one day a capitalist will come across this board and will be really hurt by all the activism and praxis in your idiotic posts. Keep fighting on brotha ✊

                  • GrayoxOP
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                    Don’t worry I’ll keep posting, and you will continue to be wholly incapable of logically refuting the point of my posts. 🤡

        • Bonehead
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          22 years ago

          Because id rather own something than rent something…

          What do you own when you buy tickets from a scalper? Unless used for the specific event, it’s just a piece of paper. And once the specific event is over, it becomes worth less than a piece of paper. The event itself is over within hours.

          • AItoothbrush
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            32 years ago

            So its the same. You have to pay again and again to use it. But housing is a basic need.

      • Shalakushka
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        132 years ago

        Landlords sell access to an apartment or house temporarily during a specific time at inflated prices. Ticket scalpers sell access to an event venue or stadium temporarily at a specific time at inflated prices.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 years ago

          For the analogy to work there’d have to be some prior market of housing that landlords buy up the second the market opens, and then “resell” (nevermind that renting is more than “access to housing”). That’s not really how it works though.

          • @[email protected]
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            92 years ago

            I’m not saying all landlords do so but what you described happens quite often. Landlords buy a property when they already have a place to live in and then rent out said property to someone who has none. And now said someone can’t own a property because there’s none on the market as all are bought out so all what is left to do for those people is to rent. It’s an oversimplification of course and there’s a lot of nuance to it but the general message still stands - if a person with a house buys another house to rent it out then one less house remains to be bought for people with no house.

            • @[email protected]
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              32 years ago

              The housing market for rental properties doesn’t just exist. It is is explicitly financed by the profit motive of renting, e.g. as real estate securities for the well-off upper middle class, or more likely, huge real etate companies. Now maybe there are some parts of the world where building companies just throw up houses and landlords scalp them off (suburbs in Australia I think) but I don’t think that’s the case in general.

              • GrayoxOP
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                102 years ago

                The “housing market” shouldn’t exist thats the point that is going over your head like an airplane. Lmao.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 years ago

              And there are investment groups with billions of dollars buying tens of thousands of homes, competing with other investment groups.

          • @[email protected]
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            102 years ago

            And to add on the “the second the market opens” part - landlords can buy houses even before they are fully built and liveable which is not really an option for a person with no house because such an investment leaves you with no place to live and no money (mostly).

            • @[email protected]
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              32 years ago

              Eh… what do you think happens when you buy your first house while living in an apartment? Over here anyway you can’t just up and leave, you’ve got a contract to rent the apartment until a certain date and the house you want might not be available on that specific date… I was paying both my condo and my apartment for four months when I first bought…

    • GrayoxOP
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      312 years ago

      How the mechanisms of Capitalism encourages one to buy up resources they did nothing to create, and profit off of the labor of others while contributing nothing to improve our society.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 years ago

      He’s landlord or an aspiring landlord.

      “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”