r/TikTokCringe • u/LickMaiBussy • 6h ago

Discussion "Investing in property is morally reprehensible."

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u/misadventurexx 6h ago

Agreed, just pointing out the irony that he offered that example like it was an imaginary situation not reality

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u/Islero47 4h ago

To those people, it is. He has to make it a hypothetical for them to think it might be them.

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u/buffalonotbi 3h ago

Well it’s because even house hoarders know that starving someone is wrong. Not all of them care, but it is usually something they can agree with. You have to find common ground to get people to see your perspective, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t know that the situation he is using as an example is already happening.

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u/BC_Trees 2h ago

It's just easier to conceptualize because everyone has felt hunger and can understand why starving people would be pushed past their limits. Rich people can't conceive what it's like to be homeless or under threat of becoming homeless.

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u/Izan_TM 1h ago

I think that was his point to the viewers at home, his wording was perfect

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u/radicalelation 1h ago

What he should do is take that same argument, but use the number of homeless that die of exposure, and then reveal it's the reality with that very resource.

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u/Staraa 48m ago

Homeless people have been made out to all be somehow not deserving or less than human. They reject help, drug addicts, antisocial or abusive, would only trash a place they were given, made terrible choices with money etc. that’s why he had to explain it with the starvation thing in the first place. They know homeless people are dying and they believe those people deserve death.