We are reliably informed people like you are abhorrent, money-grubbing capitalists! All you care about is money, not people. I bet you even read Ayn Rand! (argumentum ad Randium?)
https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/entrepreneurship/anyone-looking-at-houston-real-estate/
In all seriousness, I hope you show the commenters on that thread the true nature of capitalism.
So glad that others' misery and loss is a source of amusement! What a great guy you are to find humor in the face of a natural disaster. So sorry all the fear, death and destruction made those of us going through it at the time a wee bit cranky.
No one was saying the idea of making money on SE Texas real estate wasn't eventually going to be a good idea, but maybe just maybe waiting until the fucking hurricane/flooding wasn't still actively happening and they found a bit more of the missing and dead... maybe would have been a better idea to wait a week or two before positing about capitalism and profiting (or is that profiteering? Silly me...) off of a natural disaster.
Sure, think it to yourself all you want but posting it on a public forum where there is a contingent of posters experiencing the event at the time? Tone deaf, heart-breaking and frankly quite disturbing.
TO clarify: the Houston real estate post was made on August 29th. We were still experiencing rains, flooding, rising waters and evacuations well past the 30th. People were being swept away and deaths still being discovered for several days during and following this post time.
I can't even imagine in what world you think discussing buying up real estate
at that time would be seen as anything other than reprehensible. I don't care if you're religious/agnostic/atheist - it's wrong to bring up profiting off a natural disaster while it is still actively happening unless you truly have no empathy or compassion for your fellow man. In which case, I am sure this is just a further source of amusement for you, but I've at least said what I needed to say and I'm very thankful I don't have to deal with you IRL.