Re:Fancy Dorms Aren’t the Main Reason Tuition Is Skyrocketing
by yequalsx on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:32PM
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Clearly you are being deliberately obtuse. It is quite hard to believe you don't understand colloquial speech as it pertains to the phrase "rent seeking". You missed, entirely, the point I made. I can't imagine this is anything but deliberate on your part.
Perhaps you think that rent is good, but that's a different statement. I'm sure that most Trump supporters also feel they deserve rents at the expense of Mexicans/those who might otherwise employ Mexicans.
I'm not sure what "colloquial speech" you refer to or what you mean by "pejorative sense". As far as I know "rent seeker" is a technical term used primarily by economists to refer to people who take actions to seek/preserve their rent. If you feel it's pejorative, that's only because on some level you recognize that harming others for personal gain is not a good thing.