CileTheSane

Baldur's Gate?

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Usually in these games I tell workers to do the work, I'm just the guy giving orders.

I'm anti-war and guns, I play a lot of war games and shooters.

Right, he's an idiot.

He's not hurting the people who made him buy it.

If he really wanted to be rid of it he could have instead done nothing. Put someone in charge with the impossible task of "make this profitable in 5 years" and then shut it down after 5 years because "it's not profitable".

Showing his ass to the world and ruining future potential for investment by looking like an incompetent idiot is not a "secretly intelligent move".

If Steam turns to shit I'll just pirate all my games again. I've already paid for them anyway.

So you're well aware that alternative investment options exist and all this "what am I to do? Rental housing is the only thing to invest in" is just nonsense.

clearly in this thread it’s evil

Yup. Just like if someone invested in diamonds or gold, people upset about it wouldn't give them a pass if they said "I just wanted a tangible investment".

You complained about spending 30 years making someone else rich, and now you're retired off the back of your renter making you rich. Your example of a "bad year" was $2500 profit after paying for repairs from a tornado, for a property you don't need or use.

It’s not feigned ignorance it’s the fact that any tangible investment will upset SOMEONE.

Stocks, Bonds, Index Funds, 401k. Go talk to an advisor.

Housing shouldn't be an investment.

"I bought a limited resource people require for survival, what should I have done?"

Not do that. I have plenty of investments, none of them are houses. This feigned ignorance of "what else am I allowed to invest in?" Doesn't work. Go talk to an advisor, they'll provide you with plenty of options.

I personally believe that asking the details of why a person believes something is EXACTLY the right way to have a discussion because if you just scream at the person and say you're wrong, that person will just dig in and solidify his opinion.

Asking someone

So they should buy the house, pay the mortgage and let you stay there for free?

Is not an attempt at understanding why a person believes something. It's the passive aggressive equivalent to yelling at them that they're wrong.

I am not surprised in the slightest that when pushed to actually define and defend your stance you respond with

I'm not going to argue with you anymore

First of all, people are able to state their opinions on a subject without first having to ask questions like:

So they should buy the house, pay the mortgage and let you stay there for free?

This is exactly what I mean by "just asking questions" being disingenuous at best. That's not a questions someone asks a person if they are legitimately "wanting to understand the other person’s side".

How can I agree or disagree if I don’t even know the rules

What rules? They made pretty clear statements about their position (unlike you). You can ask them clarifying questions and state your own position on the subject at the same time.

I don’t care for arguments that place individuals in the same category as large corporations.

It's possible for something to be wrong for both individuals and corporations to take part in. If someone is saying "slavery is bad" I don't need to hear some bullshit "Corporations who use slave labour are worse than individuals who use slave labour. Leave the individuals alone!" Both are bad. Corporations are worse, yes, but that doesn't give individuals a free pass. Both need to be stopped.

There are heroes and villains in every industry.

Yes, and the role of government should be to step in and stop the villains.

I did not set up the rules, I’m just following them. In the united states this is unfortunately how it functions.

That is exactly the point. This is how it functions and it shouldn't be. That doesn't change by people shrugging their shoulders and saying "it is what it is." It changes by people making noise about it until the rules are changed.