Parasitic

Except I don’t have to go to a concert. If I don’t have shelter I’m pretty fucked.
- Yup! Both are leeches on society, but one is sucking from the jugular and the other is sucking from an extremity. That being said they are both sucking the same blood.
  
  I really have no empathy for the scalper problem.
  Don't go to the concert.
  If anything the artists could charge more, seeing as some people will already pay scalper price. They're doing they're audience a favor by charging so much less than they're willing to pay.
  
  Then why don't you buy your own fucking house if it's so easy.
- There it is. What a dumb argument the post has. It's like people who get mad at people complaining about skyrocketing food prices. We all have to eat! Greedy corporations are just exploiting that...
- Then buy a home in a lower cost of living area. There’s government grants to assist with down payments and closing costs.
  My first house, that I bought about 5 years ago before you start calling me a boomer, was a HUD foreclosure. I was only required to do 100 dollars as a downpayment.
  
  Buying in a lower cost of living area is easier when you don't have to consider things like school districts for children, availability of public transportation to get to work, or even safe walkable areas to get groceries.
  
  People who buy a house today are quite literally paying double for the same house that they would have 5 years ago due to the federal reserve increasing the interests rates to 'fight inflation' same selling price for thr house accounted for they are paying double the mortgage because of the increased rates.

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Landlords = Property scalpers

Landlords do provide services: property maintenance and not having to worry about selling the place when you leave. Are landlords paid way too much for these services? Hell yes. That's more an issue of inadequate supply though, in my opinion.
Similarly, ticket scalpers provide a service, but not to concert goers. Scalpers absorb risk on behalf of the venue/performer. That's why venues, who could absolutely shut down scalpers, don't. Still scummy as hell, but don't absolve the venue of guilt too.
- Bruh the water fountain in the gym at my apartment complex has been broke for over a year, with 2 different owners who have both refused to fix it lmao. They provide a service that should be a human right, and i fail to see how increasing the supply would mediate this exploitation of something people need to survive. Lol
  
  Ours just has a sign that says "taken offline due to covid" and the gym was down for maintenance for a month and they only fixed one out of like seven issues.
  These broken items have been broken for three years but the leasing office claims maintenance is done every six months.
  
  If there were more available units, you could leave and go to one with better maintenance. There'd be actual competition between landlords to keep tenants.
  Not ideal, obviously, since moving is a pretty big life event. I'm not saying increasing supply is the solution to every problem with landlords. Being allowed to withhold partial rent if common elements are broken would probably be a better solution in this particular instance.
- All the big venues near me have moved to non-transferable tickets.
- Landlords derive profit from owning a scarce resource, not from providing any services.
  A property maintenance worker does the same thing but is paid for their time like any other working class individual.
  This is why you can have a terrible landlord just like any good one. It's not the quality of the landlord that's the problem, it's the exploitative relationship. Just like how slavery is bad despite their being "good" slave owners that didn't beat their slaves: it wasn't the treatment of the slaves that was the problem, it was the ownership of human beings.
  
  It is literally a hold over from the Feudalism that was the status quo before Capitalism was the status quo. Every new social order holds reminants of the previous hierarchical powet structures thats why Landlords are called landLORDS they are a different class from the workers who's paychecks they rely on to pay the mortgages to their fiefdoms.
- So... how would you describe eliminating competition so that there are no other ticket scalpers. Oh, and you also need regular concert tickets to survive.
  THAT'S how they're different, and how giant corporations who buy up properties and single-family homes and then jack-up rental prices (that they also own) are not "providing a service", but further enriching themselves.

Economically they are, both activities are rent seeking

There are some pretty significant differences, but you do you.
And since I noticed the disingenuous responses to the other person saying this already, I'm excited for people to respond to this comment by fallaciously assuming I indicated either of these was better or worse than the other. I said they're different.
- Care to explain how they are different, I'm not saying being a landlord and a ticket scalper are the EXACT same thing. Im saying they are both Parasitic on society. The onus is on you to prove they are not both parasitic, if you disagree with this meme. Go ahead!
  
  A landlord is more like the original box office than a scalper. A scalper is more like someone renting a place to put it on airbnb. This goes against the anti landlord circle jerk though so it will get downvoted.
  
  Ticket scalpers take way more risk, plus they don’t get sympathetic coverage on the news when they’re whining that people aren’t buying their tickets at a high enough markup. Also ticket scalpers aren’t withholding a fundamental necessity from people. Ticket scalpers work harder, too.
  Really, ticket scalpers are just incorrigible scamps compared to landlords.
  
  Still waiting...
- "omg two related concepts are not 100% the same." --edgelord.
  
  Helps them stay in their disingenuous safe space where they can avoid critical thinking at all costs.

Those ticket scalpers and land lords are providing an economic service to you by taking the risk that they miss the show or have to pay their own mortgage! It's a very useful service for you!

That doesn't make sense
- What don’t you understand?
  
  How the mechanisms of Capitalism encourages one to buy up resources they did nothing to create, and profit off of the labor of others while contributing nothing to improve our society.
  
  He's landlord or an aspiring landlord.
  "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
  
  Well for once scalpers sell tickets, and landlords rent out housing.
- Both are people taking up resources at perceived lower prices and trying to make a profit off of the artificial scarcity they've created.
- It only makes sense to those who are illogical.
  People love to hate what they don't understand. People have been hating other people and things they don't understand for thousands of years.

Why does lemmy want to make renters homeless so badly?
- Because I'd rather be putting money toward owning my current residence than renting it.
  But the bank says I'm not allowed.
  
  And you’re likely not allowed because your landlord helped create a housing market that so cooked you can’t enter it.
- People owning homes they don't need doesn't making housing more accessible for everyone else. If you understand math, this makes sense.

Hurr durr landlords bad, let me live on your property for a penny even though you had to spend money to create the acquire the property in the first place!!
- Are you against roads?
  Do you use the sidewalk without paying a fee to a private entity that helped develop it?
  Housing doesn't have to be a scarcity market. I don't anyone is complaining about people who own a house, but people are complaining about companies and individuals who own 10,000 homes.
- Ummm more like "scalper buys ticket first and now you can't, then charges way more for it." And "landlord buys houses first, now you can't, and they charge more to live in it than you would have if you were able to buy it yourself."
  They're pretty much the same
- Not all landlords are scumbags, but there's a cliche for a reason.
- How about we compromise on paying them the cost of entering the land into production. Just cut out the "unearned income".
- A penny is too much.
  
  So everyones labor should be free for you to take then? How are you not the parasite for wanting others to build, maintain and fund a place for you to live?
- Nobody creates real estate, unless you're talking about those artificial islands in Dubai.
  
  Got it, the buildings we live in are naturally created by the shifting of tectonic plates👌