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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

It's only investing because there's practically no risk.

[–] criss_cross 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

This is how I learn there's a lego death star now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

you haven't seen spider man?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

At least in the case of fumos these days they're made-to-order. Buying 10 of them isn't snatching 10 of them from the carts of other potential buyers, it just means 10 more fumos will be made. If anything it's strictly increasing the supply and making them more accessible to people who couldn't make the preorder window.

This was absolutely not the case a few years ago, though. And just because you're technically not scalping doesn't mean you can't still wildly overcharge.

[–] bunchberry 23 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

It always impresses me how much people worship landlords, even Canada up there is having a housing crisis but nobody dares question the sanctity of landlords. You can watch both the major parties arguing for hours and nobody ever brings up landlordism once. A lot of them choose to instead become hostile to immigrants, both parties moving further right on immigration because stopping immigration or potentially even kicking out immigrants to them is more acceptable than questioning the sanctity of landlords. You also saw a similar thing here in the USA, I remember after the Trump/Kamala debate when they revealed the plans for bringing housing prices down and Trump was "mass deportation" and Kamala was "a tax credit." Not sure about every country definitely here in US and Canada, people here treat landlords like unquestionable deities, the idea that their right to rule should even be called into question is not even something that passes through most people's heads.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

One thing that started here in New Zealand was reporting on and ranking their portfolio sizes (lots had it tied up in an estate or trust, but that connection was able to be reported on - even if it might be 'co-owned by the family').

We still have huge problems in this area but the noble few that don't 'stand out like a dogs bollocks' and all the others just looked like the same bunch of psycho/sellouts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Just as with all of those items, the "solution" is to decrease regulation and increase supply in the market.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

This is literally what caused the UK to fall back into a housing crisis that they had mostly solved with heavy regulation.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ziggurat 21 points 13 hours ago

That's why they are held in higer regard

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Seeing alot of touhou in the fediverse lately.

[–] yamanii 6 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Touhou will take over the world!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Yes, Zun will force people to play touhou on lunatic mode /j

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago
[–] slaacaa 140 points 23 hours ago (19 children)

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.

[–] bunchberry 7 points 11 hours ago

fumo is a basic human need

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