This is answered on a more capitalistic view, but of course everyone has their comfort zone. 

I didn't really mind, but in my context (a college) some folks are not as keen on free market capitalism in general....With just one mid-level condo housing a professional at market rates--someone called me a "slum lord" and another said I was "a capitalist" (the latter of which I think they meant as derogatory--but I kinda appreciated or preferred to being called socialist or communist). 

But he is not complaining after he assessed the return vs expenses, but as a good capitalist he did raise his rates to those of the nearest laundry.As another suggested he also went with separate water heating on his dime.

@Jay Helms runs the W2 Capitalist (also a great guy).

@Ralphie Hernandez i recommend you check out the YouTube channel "nomad capitalist" alot of helpful tax saving strategy and information for long term planning

But STRs should be thus zoned like any other activity and the people who have vested their lives in these areas should have the opportunity to decide for themselves what kind of neighborhood they want to live in, instead of having these commercial activities foisted upon them by largely out-of-town capitalists who don't have to live next door to their activities.  

Using 10- 50 'touches' with a guy in his 60s- 90s might soon prove counter productive... just as calling a millennial to 'invest' in RE as a 'private investor,' or 'venture capitalist,' probably isn't going to pan- out!

I’m in the Joplin area and part of the Joplin REIA and the Capitalist Cartel groups.

Scandinavia and even modern China are great examples of countries which have elements of socialism but incorporate varying degrees of competition and capitalism - in fact one could argue modern China is more capitalistic than modern America is (at the very least in a dystopian sense).Then we must ask, does pure capitalism work?

During this Covid time, it's safe to assume that eight people of which six are unauthorized to occupy the premisses have been able to  assemble a nice little fortune collecting any social resource that was made available to them (unemployment money, stimulus checks, etc.) while the capitalist (me) spent last three semesters teaching 10 college classes each semester on Zoom from the same room my children are doing their own online classes.