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Most types of profit are immoral. Providing housing is at least genuinely clearly useful.

Manipulating people to buy stuff they don't need (advertising, marketing, hollywood) is immoral in so many ways. Weapons are very questionable, massive markups on basic stuff (cosmetics) etc etc if you go on about 80% of our economy is actually immoral. Even foods which are a basic good, are generally bottom dollar hollowed out poisons compared to what they could be if health was the primary concern. Don't get me started on the corruptions of profit to the medical process.

I don't know what your problem is about housing but it seems out of perspective if you're not going to campaign against profit from just about everything.




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