A person or entity that provides little to no value while seeking to take/extract as much value from others; a burden on society as a whole.
Highly similar to a mooch or a leech, they thrive off owning something scarce that other people need; this provides a position of which negotiation is a mere formality.
Rent seekers are intrinsically "valued" more than a mooch or a leech though, prized by much of business and criminal culture for their innate ability to treat people like numbers and maximize cost to benefit ratios. For this reason, a "rent seeker" does not exclusively mean someone who literally owns property and seeks rent.
Highly similar to a mooch or a leech, they thrive off owning something scarce that other people need; this provides a position of which negotiation is a mere formality.
Rent seekers are intrinsically "valued" more than a mooch or a leech though, prized by much of business and criminal culture for their innate ability to treat people like numbers and maximize cost to benefit ratios. For this reason, a "rent seeker" does not exclusively mean someone who literally owns property and seeks rent.
"My landlord won't fix the hot water and is upping my rent anyways! But all the other places I check out are also moldy or broken and cost even more! Goddamned rent seekers!"
by Outline2163 February 3, 2023
Get the rent seeker mug.In real life, it's unsavory, dangerous, or disgusting actions done in urban rental property - be intentional or unintentional - to deter new tenants and force the landlord from increasing the rent (as no one would normally pay high rent for an unsafe or unkept property, and the existing tenants stay because of the lower price).
Online, it's a community's acts of exaggerated unpopular behavior as a way to gatekeep by attempting piss off and deter unwanted members and behaviors on purpose. Said behavior may not necessarily be how the community actually behaves.
Online, it's a community's acts of exaggerated unpopular behavior as a way to gatekeep by attempting piss off and deter unwanted members and behaviors on purpose. Said behavior may not necessarily be how the community actually behaves.
Guy 1: Landlord's about to increase the rent
Guy 2: *plays porn on max volume* *discharges a pistol in the air* *pisses on the floor outside*
Guy 2: There, I'm keeping the rent low
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User: Hey Admin, the server's starting to get more Anti Shippers
Admin: Get me pics of incest ships, I'll plaster it in the announcements channel to keep the rent low
Guy 2: *plays porn on max volume* *discharges a pistol in the air* *pisses on the floor outside*
Guy 2: There, I'm keeping the rent low
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User: Hey Admin, the server's starting to get more Anti Shippers
Admin: Get me pics of incest ships, I'll plaster it in the announcements channel to keep the rent low
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Get the Rent free mug.rent a closet is slang for a self storage unit at a place that rents out storage units like the ones on the tv show storage wars as you see on the show people pay rent for their storage unit and if they stop paying rent the storage unit facility can have the contents of the storage unit auctioned off to recoup the lost revenue
john and his wife realized after they moved into their new house that they have too much stuff to put away so john’s wife suggested that they obtain a rent a closet to put their extra stuff
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