• @slaacaa@lemmy.world
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    13318 hours ago

    Housing is a basic human need, it shouldn’t be allowed to be only an investment. With the other items, you can just say “so don’t buy it”, which is not possible with housing, you have to pay for it, even of you wouldn’t like to.

    • @timestatic@feddit.org
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      -55 hours ago

      Honestly, I get what you mean, but it also provides funding for new housing projects to be built first, and if you weren’t allowed to invent in it it would also not really be possible to rent a house, since that relies on someone paying for the house first.

      • @Hyperlon@lemmy.world
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        39 hours ago

        An Important want for sure, but not a necessity in any way shape or form. You won’t die or get sick by not attending a concert or a guitar would be listed in survival guildes

      • @calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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        5616 hours ago

        I’d bet if you were a lego fan you’d say the same about legos.

        Housing and concerts are orders of magnitude apart in “importantness”. All of the items above are not needed to live. A home is needed.

        • MrScottyTay
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          1216 hours ago

          People who buy Lego to sell in the future actually do call it investing by the way

          • @yeather@lemmy.ca
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            510 hours ago

            It’s scalping if you have a quick turn around, it’s investing if you take care if it to sell farther into the future. Seeing a recently released limited set for double the price on ebay is scalping, seeing a 20-30 year old mint set for double the price is investing.

            • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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              56 hours ago

              If it’s a limited edition and someone buying it to “invest” denies another person’s ability to purchase and enjoy it then fuck the “investor”.

              If enough are available at the time that anyone who wants it can acquire it then I have no problem with someone keeping a copy in good condition to sell later.

        • PropaGandalf
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          015 hours ago

          Define a “home”. A cave? A tent? A huge loft? What is really necessary to survive?

            • @Dupree878@lemmy.world
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              24 hours ago

              That’s a good classification to have.

              The apartment I lived in until June this year was my or my friends home for 20 years, but I stayed sick after the new neighbors moved in and started destroying the place. I couldn’t have food anymore because of the rodents, roaches, bedbugs and diseased water that started running down the walls and leaking through the ceiling.

            • @Resonosity@lemmy.world
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              1010 hours ago

              I’d add a place where you won’t get attacked or threatened while sleeping, and maybe where you can store your stuff that also won’t get stolen easily

          • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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            56 hours ago

            You haven’t paid enough attention to notice that the tropic of conversation is that scalping is bad and property scalping is worse, which you seem to agree with, so I don’t know why you’re arguing with people.

      • @killingspark@feddit.org
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        1317 hours ago

        I agree that “just don’t buy it” is not that easy for culture in general, it could be applied to hypermonetized events.

        I’m not sure I get your second point. How is Ticketmaster enabled by people boycotting events that get scalped?

        • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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          216 hours ago

          How is Ticketmaster enabled by people boycotting events that get scalped?

          They aren’t by that specifically, but they are by transferring the blame to scalpers and the victims of both scalpers and Ticketmaster…

        • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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          -316 hours ago

          Yeah. Not to mention that a lot of people’s social identity, social activities and sense of community are all tied up in going to concerts together…