• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Hoarding multiple properties during a shortage should be socially unacceptable, but definitely isn’t.

    I understand that you’re motivated to do this because it’s easy money, but I’m not going to lie to you to make you feel any better about that choice. The fact that billionaires and hedge funds exist and are bad doesn’t make what you’re doing any better - the only difference between you and them is the scale of the rent-seeking you’re engaging in.

    It’s a bad, but lucrative thing to do - if the labour you’re doing to secure that profit is occasionally feeling a pang of guilt, I’d say you have it easy.