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by nickff 929 days ago
Investing in a home and leasing it out is not actually 'economic rent-seeking' (which is what your linked article is about). Look at the first example given there:

>"Successful capture of regulatory agencies (if any) to gain a coercive monopoly can result in advantages for rent-seekers in a market while imposing disadvantages on their uncorrupt competitors. This is one of many possible forms of rent-seeking behavior."