• CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    These are retirees who likely have pensions and 401Ks built up over half a century.

    If you want to talk about wealthy people, what about the people who likely spent tens of millions of dollars to buy out the community and then jacked up fees by $50k per year overnight? Why can’t they be the ones suffering rather than some 95 year old woman who now needs to move and leave everyone she knows behind?

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      1 year ago

      So old people should never have contracts that expire? That doesn’t seem like it would benefit the old people much.

      Like I just don’t understand the outrage. They’re inconvenienced and old?

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        1 year ago

        So old people should never have contracts that expire?

        Who said that? I was more inferring that old people shouldn’t be kicked out of a senior retirement home because some new wealth management firm bought the property and decided to squeeze the juice out of them. What benefit does that have for the rest of society? It’s entirely self-serving.

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            1 year ago

            Simply renting property isn’t what’s happening here, hence the news article and this discussion.

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              1 year ago

              It literally is this. This is a fluff piece that sells because it involves a little old lady. They set contracts that expire and opted not to renew them given the cost. That’s the entire story.