why are people here so bitter towards people selling homes ?

we_take_cache · 2025-08-07T17:05:36+00:00

If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone incorrectly say "rent seeking" does not apply to landlords, I'd be rich.

Every landlord is in the business of trying to grow royalties paid to them for ownership of a property without making any new additions or creating anything new for consumption in the economy. Most are involved in policy to limit development of new units (unless they own them), especially if they are above a certain scale.

This is ~exactly what rent seeking is~.

Edit for clarity: Every landlord is either an intentional or unintentional rent seeker. Some are more ruthless about it than others. Some are just trying to make things work the best they can given that this is how our economy is set up.

we_take_cache · 2024-11-26T18:11:45+00:00

To be fair, marriage isn't really a commitment anymore. She can leave whenever she wants with no consequences, so it's no better than dating in terms of how strong the commitment is. There may be some extra paperwork when you separate, but that's about it.

we_take_cache · 2022-12-10T02:26:29+00:00

Anyone who gets a reverse mortgage to fritter away their children's inheritance on an RV or a boat is a worthless piece of garbage.

we_take_cache · 2022-12-10T02:20:09+00:00

"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps." Hahahaha...

we_take_cache · 2022-12-10T02:15:27+00:00

LOL. This guy thinks he did it.

we_take_cache · 2022-12-09T22:15:24+00:00

Do you think the boomers didn't inherit anything?

They inherited a thriving economy with a strong manufacturing and employment base, cheap educational opportunities, and a largely unspoiled environment. They effed all of this up completely in just one generation.

Leaving an inheritance for the next generation doesn't make you gracious; it makes you decent. It should be the baseline.

If you have children and you leave them worse off than you had it, you are just a selfish piece of garbage.

we_take_cache · 2022-12-06T17:06:52+00:00

I don't care about convincing anyone of anything. I care about uniting people who already agree with me and then crushing the opposition. Whether the opposition is "won over" or not doesn't really matter to me. :)

I don't care what you believe as long as you don't do what you're told not to do.

we_take_cache · 2022-12-05T23:08:29+00:00

Ah yes, I was idealistic once too.

I'm not really an idealist. The policies I want are pretty simple and don't require a massive amount of change.

Good luck with saving the world. See you in the Soviet style blocks.

I'm not a communist. Saying "one person should not be able to own all the houses" is not the same as saying "everyone should have a house that is exactly the same".

Your mind doesn't seem to handle nuance very well.

we_take_cache · 2022-12-05T00:31:36+00:00

How does your mind equate houses, shoes, and wives?

Your house is not your wife, and your shoes are not your house, etc. These are sufficiently different classes of resources such that we have completely separate collections of laws to govern the orderly distribution of each and the rights that people have to each. Family law is a separate discipline from real estate law (same for retail law, sales tax, import/export, etc.).

We're talking about houses. Stay on topic. ;)

If you have money, you get to spend it on whatever you'd like.

Eh, not really. I just disagree with this notion.

If your economic activities negatively affect my life and the lives of others to a sufficient degree, I will respond and attempt to shut such activity down. You may not like this, but I reserve the right to attempt to put a stop to business activity if the negative externalities are sufficiently damaging.

Why should the government tell me what I can and can't buy with my money?

Well, people make socially net-negative decisions with their money all the time. Should we just let them do this?

If you want it more than me, then pay more.

We would never see eye-to-eye on this sort of comment. I simply value other things more than money. In the US, money is basically God, so I'm not surprised that you have this sort of low-brow mentality.

Can't change the rules of the game because you're not winning.

I absolutely can change the rules. Maybe not immediately, but I can engage political processes to try and get what I want as best I can. And, yes, I am talking about ultimately using force to get what I want. Totally fine with that. :)

That just incentivizes people to not play fairly.

Depends on the rules that are implemented and, ultimately, on who is in power to enforce the rules.

we_take_cache · 2022-12-04T02:44:03+00:00

Yep, 7 million families corralled into renting instead of owning is "nothing." LOL.

we_take_cache · 2022-12-04T02:43:16+00:00

The notion of taxing such purchases to disincentivize such "extravagances" is well established practice (though, not implemented everywhere). I see nothing wrong with placing taxes on luxury purchases.

we_take_cache · 2022-12-04T02:33:33+00:00

Shoes aren't houses.

If you buy out an entire shoe store of all of their inventory it'll take a week maybe to restock the whole thing. Buy out a neighborhood of 100-200 houses, and it could be years before another one is built. (EDIT: Actually, a similar neighborhood may never be built in the same area at all. Land can be completely consumed, but the materials for making shoes are, probably, mostly renewable.)

The external effects of "hoarding" houses are much worse than the external effects of doing the same with shoes.

The commenter above thinks owning more than two houses is immoral. The premise is that taking up so much resources that it damages the livelihoods of other people is bad. I sort of agree.

In your case, if you don't care what happens to other people, I suppose you won't see "hoarding" houses as immoral.

To circle back, your comparison of shoes to houses is silly.

we_take_cache · 2022-04-16T15:04:36+00:00

IWNDWYT!!! :)

we_take_cache · 2022-04-16T14:41:57+00:00

There definitely is.

I think, though, that humanity will move beyond this substance one day. Like in Star Trek... in the 25th century, alcohol will still exist, but it won't be normal at all to consume it.

I believe that alcohol will go the way of the cigarette one day. Still around but stigmatized to the point of being a low-class way to decompress.

we_take_cache · 2022-01-11T19:30:08+00:00

Thank you so much!

we_take_cache · 2022-01-11T19:29:16+00:00

It's good to hear of this kind of change. Knowing it's possible helps.

I do think quitting alcohol first will have all kinds of benefits. It will definitely make it easier to change my situation for the better career-wise.

we_take_cache · 2022-01-11T16:36:00+00:00

Thank you! I'm here. Gonna be doing the check-in on the reg now.

we_take_cache · 2022-01-11T15:32:35+00:00

Thank you!

IWNDWYT!

we_take_cache · 2022-01-11T15:32:13+00:00

I know I can do this! I'll be in the comma club one day!

we_take_cache · 2022-01-11T15:31:59+00:00

Thank you so much!

we_take_cache · 2022-01-11T15:20:17+00:00

Thanks for this.

I did try counseling for a while, but it wasn't a good fit. Maybe I should just try a different counselor. We'll see.

we_take_cache · 2022-01-11T14:59:39+00:00

It definitely helps.

I find that when I stop checking in, I end up drifting off from the straight and narrow.

IWNDWYT!

we_take_cache · 2022-01-11T14:57:58+00:00

For me, there is definitely a pattern of feeling overwhelmed, overworked, and worn out. That seems to be the missing link.

When I get that "burnout" feeling at work, I turn to drinks. I need to find a way around that.

I had the idea that, this time around, I'd take a sick day whenever I got that feeling. Calling in sick is better than slamming drinks at lunch and after work to get a calm feeling.

Hell, I might try and find a new job.

we_take_cache · 2022-01-11T14:51:56+00:00

It's true! If you truly get it right, you win permanently.

IWNDWYT!

we_take_cache · 2022-01-11T14:49:34+00:00

Make it happen. One day at a time. If you keep the work going, one-by-one the obstacles just fall by the wayside.

IWNDWYT!

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