• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Investors accounted for 25.7% of residential home sales in 2024.

    In that article, the word “investors” is deliberately lumping together individuals, and institutions/corporations, in an obvious attempt to trick people into thinking that category is comprised entirely of the latter. Underhanded semantic maneuver. Within the same article:

    While large institutional investors continue to get most of the headlines in the single-family rental space, small investors account for more than 90% of the market.

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      3 days ago

      the word “investors” is deliberately lumping together individuals, and institutions/corporations, in an obvious attempt to trick people into thinking that category is comprised entirely of the latter.

      Corporations are people, my friend.

      Underhanded semantic maneuver.

      Is ownership less virtuous in a partnership than a sole proprietorship somehow?