you can’t have cheap housing, because it would crash the lending economy. There must always be a motivating factor for you to work for monopoly money that is losing value. That is debt.
Housing is a basic human need, it shouldn’t be allowed to be only an investment. With the other items, you can just say “so don’t buy it”, which is not possible with housing, you have to pay for it, even of you wouldn’t like to.
fumo is a basic human need
Honestly, I get what you mean, but it also provides funding for new housing projects to be built first, and if you weren’t allowed to invent in it it would also not really be possible to rent a house, since that relies on someone paying for the house first.
Housing construction isn’t funded by existing housing investment. It’s generally funded by debt. Private or public, just like any other capital intensive endeavor. And debt isn’t created by lending people’s savings but by creating new money. By public or private lenders. (Private lenders create money too.) The only thing that is really needed ahead of time is labor, equipment and materials available. Financial capital is created on demand to mobilize those real resources.
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I’d bet if you were a lego fan you’d say the same about legos.
Housing and concerts are orders of magnitude apart in “importantness”. All of the items above are not needed to live. A home is needed.
People who buy Lego to sell in the future actually do call it investing by the way
It’s scalping if you have a quick turn around, it’s investing if you take care if it to sell farther into the future. Seeing a recently released limited set for double the price on ebay is scalping, seeing a 20-30 year old mint set for double the price is investing.
If it’s a limited edition and someone buying it to “invest” denies another person’s ability to purchase and enjoy it then fuck the “investor”.
If enough are available at the time that anyone who wants it can acquire it then I have no problem with someone keeping a copy in good condition to sell later.
I’m not defending it by the way
Define a “home”. A cave? A tent? A huge loft? What is really necessary to survive?
A place where you won’t get sick, at a minimum
I’d add a place where you won’t get attacked or threatened while sleeping, and maybe where you can store your stuff that also won’t get stolen easily
That’s a good classification to have.
The apartment I lived in until June this year was my or my friends home for 20 years, but I stayed sick after the new neighbors moved in and started destroying the place. I couldn’t have food anymore because of the rodents, roaches, bedbugs and diseased water that started running down the walls and leaking through the ceiling.
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You haven’t paid enough attention to notice that the tropic of conversation is that scalping is bad and property scalping is worse, which you seem to agree with, so I don’t know why you’re arguing with people.
I agree that “just don’t buy it” is not that easy for culture in general, it could be applied to hypermonetized events.
I’m not sure I get your second point. How is Ticketmaster enabled by people boycotting events that get scalped?
How is Ticketmaster enabled by people boycotting events that get scalped?
They aren’t by that specifically, but they are by transferring the blame to scalpers and the victims of both scalpers and Ticketmaster…
An Important want for sure, but not a necessity in any way shape or form. You won’t die or get sick by not attending a concert or a guitar would be listed in survival guildes
Sustenance for the spirit.
Yeah. Not to mention that a lot of people’s social identity, social activities and sense of community are all tied up in going to concerts together…
The worst thing about this is that housing is essential, while all the other things aren’t. Scalpers only take advantage of other people’s shopping addiction, while these so-called “investors” take advantage of other people’s basic needs.
That’s why they are held in higer regard
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I’ll add to that: The PlayStation etc scalpers at least give you a still-new product at the inflated price. The landlords rent it out for additional income and THEN sell it at a profit.
So it’s more like buying a PS5 for $500, having somebody rent to play it for $100/mo, then selling it for $800 after a year
This isn’t even true were I live. Investors will buy new appartments and leave them empty and sell them a few years later. Renting them would decrease the value more than the income is. It’s worse than you thought.
basic needs make good investments unless the government supplies a viable alternative.
psychopath behavior
Unable to see the argument behavior. The government, the other commenter is saying, must provide a viable alternative in order to prevent this behavior.
They’re all pieces of shit and deserve to be kicked out an airlock into deep space.
For 1-5 you can blame the people paying scalpers prices instead of just waiting.
When scalpers buy all the tickets to a concert in milliseconds, and the only way to buy a ticket is through a scalper, why are you blaming the person who wants to go to the concert instead of the scalper?
If we all collectively agreed to not buy from scalpers the ticket sellers would have a real incentive to do something against the scalpers. Right now they don’t have to care.
Would thry?
The ticket seller doesn’t care if there’s an empty hall, he got paid early on.
You’re hoping that the scalpers don’t get enough return to be able to justify continuing to play their role.
You’re hoping that the scalpers don’t get enough return to be able to justify continuing to play their role.
Yes, that’s what “If we all collectively agreed to not buy from scalpers” would achieve. I get that that isn’t going to happen but it is still our collective fault.
That “solution” suffers from the problem that requiring hundreds of thousands or even millions of people to get informed about and agree to do something all in the same time period (it won’t work if some do it now and others only later) is incredibly more hard than it is for a few tens of people or maybe a couple hundred to as individuals swarm the sales venues and take all the tickets to resell them for more money.
Or putting things another way, it’s a mountain to climb for large numbers of people to organise and stop scalpers (and that, only for a while, since if people stop doing it the scalpers will return), whilst in the current commercial environment scalpers appearing is a natural outcome.
This kind of thing usually requires changing the structures that make scalping so easy, rather than hoping that somehow (magic?) hundreds of thousands or miliions of people agree to do something.
PS: Yeah, a cultural change would be it, but expecting it to just happen and all at the same time (given that early adopters of that practice won’t actually see any upside until a large enough mass of people have adopted it and they’ll start giving up if too much time goes by whilst they’re refraining from buying from scalpers and yet scalpers keep going because so many others are still doing it) is highly unrealistic.
I’m all for changing the structures that enable scalpers in the first place but that too requires agreement and action of many many people. So if we can’t even do that for something relatively small like tickets to concerts I doubt we’ll be able to change the system in general
If we all collectively agreed…
Gestures broadly
I mean, yeah but have you seen…
Gestures broadly
… The state of things? We need to stand up as a people
In the most recent US election one of the candidates ran on a platform of “being a dictator Day 1” and a third of Americans didn’t bother to vote at all while another third happily voted for the wannabe dictator.
I do not have any faith in a large number of humans collectively working together for a better ideal.
Didn’t say I do have that faith. Just saying what I think would be necessary for large scale positive change.
Woah woah woah, we weren’t expecting an easy example to prove us wrong, how dare you.
You could go do something else instead or watch one of their performances on YouTube for free. Nobody has a gun to your head, a concert isn’t a necessity.
You could, but they aren’t the ones causing the issue, they’re just enabling profits to be made from it.
6 as well. Imagine if nobody would buy houses and just expand their parents house by a floor for their own family.
If that doesn’t work - make the neighborhood criminal by yourself right after those “people” bought houses.
If that doesn’t work, just purge them.
Oh yeah its totally affordable to just expand in existing houses. Why didn’t i think of that?
I didn’t say anything about affordability, just stated that it’s cheaper than purchasing land + house
I think that’s what caused the housing market to crash.
Surely it’ll happen one of these days right?
If my assumptions are correct, there should be a crash of something within the next 4-6 months. My problem is that a new president always means a new unknown variable, like Bitcoin did nearly double its value after Trump won, there will be a still unknown thing once he gets into office.
Damn I’ll probably be in a reeducation camp by then
Nah, it’s not worth the price of sending them up there. Just compost them.
especially the “investors”
“Private Collector”
The commonality here is how expensive the things are. Scalping is another one of those things that’s trashy if you’re poor and classy if you’re rich.
