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Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?

I am reading more and more about startups which are focusing on investments in real estate [1].

Doesn't anyone feel uneasy about it, that more and more people are looking at real estate as a financial tool, not a basic human right to have a roof over one's head?

Aren't startups like this just adding oil to the fire which is the real estate market?

I do not understand how will someone expect for future generations to achieve their own personal freedom and living inside their own four walls.

[1] - https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/backed-by-forerunner-and-bezos-back-arrived-a-startup-that-lets-you-buy-into-single-family-rentals-for-as-little-as-100/

488 points newbie578 4 years ago 731 comments

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