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A comment on Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real est... by gruez on Saturday August 13, 2022 @09:32AM (#32449699)
>the American dream of owning a home is socialist…US mortgages are guaranteed by federal government..

"socialism" =/= government intervention.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real est... by metadat on Saturday August 13, 2022 @09:57AM (#32449917)
The government created the programs that gave massive tax breaks to the boomers who bought homes.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real est... by Blackstone4 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @10:05AM (#32449989)
Quite reductionist…

Having one element of a nation state being characterised as socialist doesn’t not equate to socialism… the world is not black and white..

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