Are rent-controlled appartments the evilest thing ever?

[giblets]

The government has the authority, so no evil, but people thinkin they're entitled to **** is evil.

Wait, are you talking about people who think they're entitled to pay lower rents on a home than others would like to pay for it or people who think they're entitled to rent out their property to the highest bidder?

[KrazyHorse]

The landlords are the real rent-seekers

[Felch]

Wait, are you talking about people who think they're entitled to pay lower rents on a home than others would like to pay for it or people who think they're entitled to rent out their property to the highest bidder?

Shhhh. Let him figure out on his own.

[Kidlicious]

So everyone agrees that rent seeking is evil, but most of us jump on the poor instead of the rich.

[Felch]

The joke is that you don't know what rent-seeking means.

EDIT: ****, I ****ed up and told him.

[KrazyHorse]

If he gets really sophisticated we may see him engage in some version of the junker fallacy.

[DaShi]

Squatter's Rights!

[Kidlicious]

No I think it's funnier that you think you're better than people and don't respect the fact that some people aren't actually seeking rent but just trying to survive. That is what evil truely is.

[Kidlicious]

What about HFT? How evil is that KH?

[KrazyHorse]

Making markets more efficient by engaging in mutually beneficial trades is evil?

Also, you dumb ****, you've now managed to assert that poor people can never be evil.

[Kidlicious]

KH,
Yeah I thought you would try to justify it, and you did a really ****ty job too. It's clearly rent seeking. You aren't adding value, but you are taking ' rent' from others.

And I didn't say poor people couldn' t. I'm pointing out that the particular behaviour that you condem them for isn't nearly as evil as what you do at work everyday.

[giblets]

Accountants are evil. They just fiddle around with numbers instead of creating anything of value.

[Kidlicious]

Accountants are evil. They just fiddle around with numbers instead of creating anything of value.

Any others that you think you are superior to?

[giblets]

Any others that you think you are superior to?

People who can't detect irony.

[Kidlicious]

People who can't detect irony.

For it to be ironic it has to be true, but it was just a hatefull lie.