2/ the money that's buying up these houses is coming from middle class teachers, cops, fire fighters, bus drivers, etc. Another complaint is "these firms are too big to fail" and therefore will get bailed out by gov, so they can win on the upside, but don't suffer downside
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I agree that many ill-informed and/or inchoate objections are being lodged; tbqh I think some are confusing BLK with BX & definitely confusing prop vs agency business models. And that's in replies in *your* threads, where discourse is well above avg. Still...
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tbh I think it's almost certainly mostly "I have BADFEELS about huge financial institutions, and I have BADFEELS about the housing sector, so any story juxtaposing the two of them will set me off regardless"
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(and honestly I also have badfeels about these topics, but actually thinking about things tends to help IME)
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