• the_q@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    Your “friend” still paid a substantial portion of your mortgage and gained nothing from it beyond being out of the rain. You used him and paint it as mutually beneficial.

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      4 days ago

      How is a stable comfortable place to live ‘nothing’? If being out of the rain was all it took we’d all live in tents and this conversation would not occur. Owning a house and keeping it repaired/functional is hard and expensive. You don’t do your side favors by acting like our boy kept his friend in a locked closet when we all know that isn’t true.

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        4 days ago

        I’m not going to argue with you. Shelter is not a commodity.

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          3 days ago

          Of course it is. If it wasn’t, I wouldn’t be able to sell it, take the money and invest in something else.

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              3 days ago

              I’m trying to help you understand. You want to insult me, and make moral arguments outside the scope of basic economics.

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                2 days ago

                Oh I understand. You’re the one doing the mental gymnastics to try and normalize a system that exploits basic needs as get rich quick schemes that just do happen to only be available to a select few that have the money to play. Even now calling it basic economics as if that system is inherent to existence.

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        4 days ago

        Why do you get extra properties to rent out to others while he has to pay the rent?

        The only reason why he doesn’t have enough is because people like you have too much.

        We’re coming for you.

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          3 days ago

          The only reason why he doesn’t have enough is because people like you have too much.

          This should be satire.