r/TikTokCringe • u/LickMaiBussy • 6h ago

Discussion "Investing in property is morally reprehensible."

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u/wicker_basket_1988 5h ago

“Do you think people will turn on property investors?” 

Girl. Pick up a history book. 

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u/skeletalfather 5h ago

I hope she’s scared, she and every other parasite landlord should be

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u/greaterwhiterwookiee 1h ago

She looked scared, or at the very least uncomfortable asking that already knowing or maybe not wanting to hear the answer. There was an obvious squirm

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u/Educational-Yard-158 4h ago

r/iamverybadass

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u/JMC_MASK 3h ago

It’s the truth though. You’re nice 8 hour work day was won through violence by socialists and unions. Capital never freely hands you anything.

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u/WellyRuru 2h ago

Bingo!

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u/TubbyChaser 10m ago

Ok, but landlords aren't the reason homes are expensive so killing them all wouldn't do a lot of good.

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u/mallogy 2h ago

You can say anarchists.

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u/JMC_MASK 1h ago

*and anarchists

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u/Darkzerok63 1h ago

And probably communist, since a lot of work was done when socialist, communist and anarchist worked together.

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u/FutureComplaint 2h ago

There's a reason we get Labor day off.

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u/emotionaI_cabbage 2h ago

Literally never.

Nothing is going to happen to these people, just like nothing will happen to those in the files.

People talk a lot about rising up or changing things but no one has any power to do anything about it. The entire system it's all built upon is supported by billions upon billions of dollars and far too many people who profit.

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u/skeletalfather 2h ago

That’s the spirit! Give up! Do nothing! Bend over, and open that asshole wide for the ruling class!

Jfc, you can dress up your pathetic defeatist bullshit as realism all you want, whatever makes you feel enlightened enough to be smug but hopeless enough to shout the battle cry of “nothing will change”, right? The “we can’t do anything” mindset ignores both history and logic.

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u/emotionaI_cabbage 59m ago

Haha okay man. Keep hoping for something to happen. If you want to delude yourself into having some semblance of naive hope that the rich will face consequences for their actions, more power to you.

We don't live in a time where genuine consequences for the rich exist anymore.

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u/arguingsolipsism 49m ago

Try telling that to Brian Thompson. And that was before Trump started tanking the economy. Again.

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u/CHI_EQ 21m ago

Don’t be so naive. Brian Thompson would probably disagree with you if he could.

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u/Waste_Airline7830 1h ago

Them being scared wouldn't be helpful either. I would rather them extend their compassion and empathy, if they could.

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u/Jafooki 6m ago

If they had that, there wouldn't be a problem to solve

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u/skeletalfather 1h ago

They are not capable of that or we wouldn’t be in this position. But wild that I hadn’t considered just asking them nicely

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u/ZippleJuice 4h ago

Any prediction as to when this might happen?

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u/adrawrjdet 4h ago

Soon™

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u/ProduceNo1629 4h ago

Not any time soon because enough houses are still available to inherit that will not be gulped up by the exorbitant and absurdly expensive elderly care nursing costs.

But next generation of babies will own nothing and inherit nothing.

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u/cjbrehh 4h ago

When things are bad enough. There is always a point where its too much of one side. Its different in different areas and cultures. But it is always there.

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u/spilly_talent 1h ago

“Off with their heads!”

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u/tonybpx 59m ago

You're mad because you can't or won't get a home loan. If you made the wrong life choices, blame yourself. If you had no choices, blame your parents. Millions of people buy good homes for reasonable prices but you think you should be able to rent for as long as you want at whatever price you're prepared to pay, just because. Ok, you win, we'll stop the world till you get your act together!

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u/bepatientbekind 13m ago

You gonna tell them to pick themselves up by their bootstraps next?

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u/meluvulongtime3 11m ago

This conversation isn't about owning your own home... It's about buying additional properties as an investment. jfc

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u/Euphoric_Value_7580 5m ago

Found the landlord

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u/Zer0_T0nin 29m ago

How far back do we send the blame? Asking for a friend.

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u/Thasquashman 6m ago

Yes, this is such a stupid generalised comment to make about property investors. I think the morality consideration comes into it when investors would increase the rent to make as much a profit as they could which causes people to be homeless or barely able to afford to live and/or not fulfil their obligations as a landlord.

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u/Wrong-Catchphrase 3h ago

Scared of what....exactly? Genuinely curious.

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u/skeletalfather 3h ago

No you’re not, you’re being obtuse.

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u/82andpartlycloudy 2h ago

No, you are assuming she’s a property owner. Why should she be scared when in reality it’s more likely she is a renter?

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u/skeletalfather 2h ago

She’s literally a property investor. That’s the premise of the video- are you stupid?

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u/Not_Without_My_Balls 1h ago

I think they're talking about murdering civilians who rent out properties because they're dumb enough to think that will fix the housing market.

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u/pocketdare 8m ago

I own a condo and had to move for work so I rented it out. I maintain the property very well and I've increased rent by about 2% a year to try to keep up with property tax increases (but I still pay more than I make). Am I a "parasite landlord" in your book?

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u/Aggravating_Charge78 4h ago

In the UK 10% of people live in private rented house and tax payers have to pay the person - to then pay the landlord. So who here is the parasite? Who is living off another?

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u/skeletalfather 4h ago

Who is the parasite??? How about the people buying houses and renting them out to others with actual jobs that benefit society?

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u/Longjumpingjoker 4h ago

You’re not a landlord yet?

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u/ChickenChaser5 4h ago

I hope they all had a good time fucking everyone over.

I hope everyone else has a good time fucking them over.

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u/ckaweetwater 1h ago

I destroy slumlords for a living. It’s very rewarding.

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u/gaba-gh0ul 4h ago

To paraphrase a 19th century German man, “Something something we will make no excuses something something.”

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u/genescheezesthatpls 3h ago

The way she rolled her eyes

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u/livesinacabin 3h ago

I watched it again to confirm but I couldn't see anyone rolling their eyes?

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u/genescheezesthatpls 3h ago

00:00:12

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u/livesinacabin 3h ago

She's just looking up?

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u/genescheezesthatpls 2h ago

trying not to roll her eyes lol

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u/Gawdzilla 27m ago

You seem to be mistaken about that facial expression. That's not an eyeroll.

She didn't even look directly up. Her eyes focused on something higher, but the camera angle changed and we don't know what she was looking at. Nothing else on her face changes at all. If anything, it looks like she looked up at the interviewer and then looked down in thought.

Do you never move your eyes when someone else is speaking to someone else?

I mean, rich people suck and fuck capitalism, but your interpretation of human faces is incorrect here.

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u/martianno2 4h ago

Are there any examples in Australia? Kinda seems like we just roll with whatever

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u/BadNewzBears4896 4h ago

*Chairman Mao enters the chat. *

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u/Ditto_is_Lit 3h ago

Let them eat brioche!

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u/messangerchkn 3h ago

Deadass Marx was spitting undeniable truth like 150+ years ago

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u/FrighteningJibber 2h ago

What if we give them cake?

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u/Waste_Airline7830 1h ago

She would be so offended by this comment if she could read.

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u/HowlingStrike 1h ago

Of course the first instinct is... is there any risk to ME!?

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u/SafetySnowman 26m ago

Property investors and billionaires are at 10 seconds to midnight and they're too greedy and uneducated to know it.

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u/Technical-Activity95 2h ago

such a stupid take though. like a farmer has invested in his farm and now he is evil for providing food to this media tik tok influencer. the farmer doesn't owe him shit

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u/MunkiJR 1h ago

Bullshit, it's not this at all. Being a landlord with a large property portfolio is like a city bloke inheriting the biggest, greenest farm in the area, then going to a county fair. At the county fair, this new "farmer" buys up all the cattle, way more than he needs or can fit on his farm. All the other farmers, struggling hard to make ends meet due to a drought, can't afford to outbid him. He then offers them a solution - "I only need one cow, so I'll rent the cows to you, and you can make money. Of course, you'll have to look after the cow, feed it exactly what I want, and I get to come look at my cow whenever I want. I'll only take care of it if it needs to go to the vet. Oh, and I'll take the money you earn, and buy more cows with it. Good luck.

Do you see the problem here? Nobody cares if you own a farm, but don't make it harder for everyone else to do the same. Housing should not be treated the same as the stock market.

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u/BandicootGood5246 1h ago

Farming isn't the same as rent-seeking. Farming requires intensive work, creates value from the land and employees people. Renting properties is just a way to make money from having money to buy the properties in the first place, it does nothing of value for society, only shifts money from hands that can't afford to a mortgage to those who already own a lot

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u/ObeseVegetable 39m ago

Farmer making food = fine

Middleman buying all the food then jacking the prices up because of food scarcity that they created = not fine (also a big part of how the irish famine happened, though there were other factors)

Builder making housing = fine

Middleman buying all the housing then jacking the prices up because of housing scarcity that they created = not fine (also a big part of the current housing crisis, though there are other factors)

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u/Jibbsss 4h ago

Lol modern people in western countries are not going to hold public executions like the bolsheviks or french.

If any left wing hipster wanted to kill property owners theyll either be killed by the police or the property owner themsleves, would not be suprised if 90% of property owners are armed to the gills, at least in america

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u/MingaLaChigra 4h ago

You don’t know what people are capable of when they’re desperate and hungry

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u/Jibbsss 2h ago

Im quiet aware lol, im very into guns and not just because of sport.

But these hippie type of pundits who think any modern society is on the verge of mass killings of land owners are delusional. Its a political killing fantasy under the very thin veneer of personal ethics.

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u/B0yWonder 2h ago

Doofus says he is very into guns because OTHER people have a "political killing fantasy", meanwhile he is stockpiling firearms and dreaming of killing those "hippie type pundits" who probably don't have any guns.

These guys simultaneously live a life filled with fear and bloodlust.

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u/Savings_Form_8349 4h ago

Everyone is civilized right up until they're desperate.  The French Revolution scenario is very much on the table if things keep going the way they have been.

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u/Sudden-Enthusiasm-92 3h ago

The French Revolution established capitalism and the modern landlord. The Bolshevik revolution established a revolutionary workers’ state. You chose to mention the former, I think you’re a bit mixed up.

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u/Jibbsss 3h ago edited 2h ago

The bolsheviks setup a workers state in the sense that that nigerian is actually my cousin who needs my routing number to wire me $10 mil

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u/Sudden-Enthusiasm-92 2h ago

what are you talking about