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    Poor people can’t buy homes and those investors are the same people who make everyone else poor.

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      This isn’t the rich, that’s what makes it so sad. These funds are managed by vultures, yes, but these portfolios are quickly bundled and turned into financial instruments, which in turn portions of them are rolled into other funds, which in turn are sold to groups like teachers pension funds, or fractions sold on Robinhood using fancy names that disguise what is in them. These funds are sold not to the rich but to those trying to stay ahead of the meat grinder that is the American capitalist economy. The rich get fees that are completely divorced from how well the funds perform, meanwhile working folk are inadvertently funding and fueling the machine that is making it impossible for them to afford to buy a home.

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          Yeah, that too, but my complaint is about the system that makes the rich while simultaneously convincing us to inadvertently participate in and strengthen our own economic slavery.

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          If repeating your meaningless slogan is the only response you can muster to someone actually trying to offer substantive explanation, you’re the one that lacks understanding, whether willfully or not.

          Writing it in all caps only further emphasizes this.

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    I get letters from realtors asking me to sell mine to their “client”. I’m sure they are investors so they can fuck off. I’ll take less money to make sure a family gets my house when sell.

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    While these investors are absolutely soulless and deserve to be called out, there’s another aspect of this problem that I feel doesn’t get talked about enough.

    If we just built enough housing this problem would go away. And it would be easy if we had a system that allowed people to build new things and undercut competition. But we can’t because regulations make it nearly impossible to make anything other than houses.

    People investing on houses are a symptom of the larger overall problem, of there not being enough fucking housing.

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      No. Nobody needs a Bitcoin to live, and Bitcoins are still expensive. We have more houses than we need, and housing is expensive. That’s because they’re both being used as ponzi schemes.

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        That’s kinda exactly my point? If someone could print a fuckton of new bitcoins it’s value would drop. The same is true for housing. We may have technically enough housing for everyone, but that means nothing if that housing is not also where people want to or need to live.

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      If we just built enough housing this problem would go away.

      Fun fact: there are more vacant homes than there are homeless. By a factor of 28. We have the homes, we just need to let people own them

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        Yes of course, but how do you propose we get that to happen?

        Why are these homes empty in the first place? Are they in the same places where housing is needed?

        And even if you could house all homeless people, that still leaves the problem of the crushing expense of housing in many places.

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    This is absolutely terrible for working people and the economy as a whole. Gatekeeping which ultimately brings down everyone including the investors who hold it above the heads of others.

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    I hope they all get wrecked when it bursts. This is madness and literal biblical demon levels of evil.