> That's uncalled for.
Don't care.
> You're letting your envy through.
It's not envy. It's watching rampant real estate speculation, hoarding of properties by landlords--big and small--and the four-generations-and-counting idea that owning housing is the only "stable" asset in this country turn my city into a place where my adult kids can't afford to live, many of my friends have had to move away, and largely the only people populating many of the neighborhoods around me are from the mono-tech-culture.
All while the crisis of housing people who need it yet who have fallen off of the increasingly-shaky bottom rung of society continues unabated.
It's fucking terrible and I don't really have a spare thought for anyone who insists "oh, exploiting real estate, that's how I'm going to make money" is their way out. I reserve the right to think and express the idea that it's morally wrong and that tools that enable that behavior are, by equivalence, also wrong.
(Before someone says: "Well, your city could just zone for more housing." They could, but that a large quantity of "net worth" is wrapped up in people's housing makes that almost impossible from a political perspective. So we wind up with nothing but rented apartments next to loud arterials, safely away from the areas where the people who can afford to live or who have lucked into generationally living in detached housing are living.)