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    1 year ago

    Why do you think any business does what it does?

    Yeah, profit is legitimately a problem, this guy Adam Smith wrote about it in a book and then Marx wrote a whole series of tomes doing a more comprehensive analysis about how it is unsustainable and to the detriment of humanity.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, youre a member of the rentier class, not the capitalist class.

        The critique is actually different for rentierism vs capitalism, even most capitalist economicists hate rentierism.

        You still benefit from extractivist class dynamics though. Unless you’re going to be in the red even after selling the properties you own, even if you’re charging so low that you lose money in the short term. But I’m guessing that on aggregate you’re gaining money in the short term.