Yup! Both are leeches on society, but one is sucking from the jugular and the other is sucking from an extremity. That being said they are both sucking the same blood.

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 43 points 2 years ago

several bootlickers are typing

[–] hogunner@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

Landlords = Property scalpers

[–] kitonthenet@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

Economically they are, both activities are rent seeking

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There are some pretty significant differences, but you do you.

And since I noticed the disingenuous responses to the other person saying this already, I'm excited for people to respond to this comment by fallaciously assuming I indicated either of these was better or worse than the other. I said they're different.

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Care to explain how they are different, I'm not saying being a landlord and a ticket scalper are the EXACT same thing. Im saying they are both Parasitic on society. The onus is on you to prove they are not both parasitic, if you disagree with this meme. Go ahead!

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A landlord is more like the original box office than a scalper. A scalper is more like someone renting a place to put it on airbnb. This goes against the anti landlord circle jerk though so it will get downvoted.

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thats a decent parallel actually, since the box office is selling tickets to an act that creates the value. They profit off the talents labor. Similar to how landlords profit off of the labor of whoever built the house they are renting. It ultimately comes down to the necessity to abolish private property.

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Box offices which are currently being consolidated by corporations and setting up markets for the scalpers to sell their tickets where the box office takes a percentage of the resale.

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Ticket scalpers take way more risk, plus they don’t get sympathetic coverage on the news when they’re whining that people aren’t buying their tickets at a high enough markup. Also ticket scalpers aren’t withholding a fundamental necessity from people. Ticket scalpers work harder, too.

Really, ticket scalpers are just incorrigible scamps compared to landlords.

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[–] Clent@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"omg two related concepts are not 100% the same." --edgelord.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Those ticket scalpers and land lords are providing an economic service to you by taking the risk that they miss the show or have to pay their own mortgage! It's a very useful service for you!

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