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"Realtor" really is the title of failures, isn't it? (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by RedWizard@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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All the right-wing reactionary weirdos in my area are all the same guy. Old, bearded, white, "Realtors". Every single one of them. I'm convinced that becoming a Realtor is a sign of your desperate attempt to escape the class shift from petite-bourgeois to proletariat. Getting your license isn't that hard, from my understanding.

Often they have failed businesses they are propping up with their Realtor day job. You'll find them worming around in public comment on municipal zoning code. Sometimes they come in different flavors, maybe they're the right wing 2A style, perhaps they're a Christian Evangelical brand, or they're a disgruntled "veteran" (gotta check their credentials on that stuff) motif. I have one in town who is all three, a figurative scoop of Neapolitan style reactionary garbage (all three flavors in one tub!).

The way capitalism squeezes these people, often forces them into this little Realtor mold. This isn't some profound analysis, but I bet if we did some qualitative investigating, we'd find they're all very similar.

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[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Im a plumber in the south. I deal with Realtors every day of the workweek. Here st least, its a mixed bag. There are lots of white boomer males who are realtors. There are also a lot of younger Millennials and older Gen Z (im not sure what the cutoff is, im an old fart more or less). Lot of the younger crowd are POC.

I fkn hate realtors. Especially when they go to great lengths to explain to me incorrectly in great detail about how there really isnt an issue with the plumbing. Even had two in the last six months whove asked me to fudge hydrostatic tests for the buyer to help move a sale along. Realtors are a scourge and should be dealt with just the same as Mao treated the landlorb.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

landlorb

saruman-orb

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Although anecdotal, this would suggest to me is that the demographic is aging out, and being replaced by people in slightly different economic situations. If the Median age of a Realtor is 60, but the average age is 49, that would suggest to me a huge rift in age. It isn't a smooth curve but more like a sharp drop. While the old try desperately to maintain their lifestyle after decades of being crushed by capitalism, the young seek out this low barrier role in hopes to escape the gravity of the late-stage capitalism they were born into.

As the small business owners are vaporized, from their ashes rises the Realtor, ready to serve the property speculators and big business owners.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

Like some kinda of fucked up Phoenix

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever seen a house without some plumbing issues?

Every house and apartment I've ever lived in seems to have something.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

Lol no. Theres always something wrong with the plumbing. Fkn always.