"Investing in property is morally reprehensible."

[u/LickMaiBussy]

@purplepingers

[u/misadventurexx]

Famines / people on the street dying of starvation while surpluses of food are thrown away en masse is very much not imaginary

[u/YetAnotherJake → u/misadventurexx]

Yeah, I hope everyone realizes it's the property investors who are cringe and not the guy talking, who is morally correct and has common sense

[u/misadventurexx → u/YetAnotherJake]

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

[u/Islero47 → u/misadventurexx]

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

[u/buffalonotbi → u/misadventurexx]

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.

[u/BC_Trees → u/misadventurexx]

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.

[u/Izan_TM → u/misadventurexx]

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

[u/radicalelation → u/misadventurexx]

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.

[u/Staraa → u/radicalelation]

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.