Canada

Renting in some cases is a valuable service to offer, but its also a bit of a chicken and egg problem.

When a huge portion of the population is renting only because they can’t afford to buy, the few people/businesses that can afford to buy rental properties are essentially just extracting value from renters. Getting paid to do nothing like a parasite.

Makes them get ahead faster than renters, and they buy up more and more properties. Driving up prices for both owners and renters.

Where I live, houses that people can afford to buy are purchased by these entrepreneur grindset wannabe amateur landlords and then rented out at a higher price than the mortgage to the same people who would have bought the property otherwise (which must always be the case when you think about it, otherwise there's no profit). I understand not ALL landlords are this type of scum, but she is a landlord and she is this type of scum. Hence the epithet.

Also, consider being a bit more cautious about who you tell to "check their privilege", as I'm pretty clearly defending people with less money against people with more of it. For all you know, I'm a renter living below the poverty line. My opinion, exactly as I've expressed it, is shared by many people in that situation. Even if your argument was 100% correct in all situations, it's obvious that my heart was in the place of defending lesser privilege, even if I really was misunderstanding the economic implications of landlords not existing.

The reason you can't afford to buy is because of the fucked up housing market where capital competes with normal people for the same supply. Housing shouldn't cost a hundred bazillion dollars.

Spoken like a true enjoyer of their chains.