> I also want to stipulate that I am not talking about people of modest means who acquired rental properties by scrimping and saving their earned income and making sacrifices for decades--a strategy that is part of Self-Reliance ; I'm talking about the already-wealthy who are seeking to "maximize returns" on their unearned "surplus capital."

The mental gymnastics folks go through to say "this behavior is ok if people I like do it, but it's wrong when those other gross people do it" always amuses me.