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Tbqh the only absolutely verboten thing to me would be becoming a landlord and charging market rates.
You're very much in a "no ethical investment" situation in a capitalist country, so if you don't want to exploit labor your choices are pretty limited beyond joining a commune somewhere.
I hope this does not come over as a gotcha or trick question, but why is being a landlord worse for you than owning share of a public corp like lets say Tesla or Apple?
You're stealing someone's paycheck just because you own something. You're threatening them with homelessness too if you're a landlord.
It's even more than that in the current market. The current rapid increase in rents is not a natural supply and demand effect, it's a result of the market being captured by what amounts to a price fixing racket enabled by programs like Yield Star. Parent company based in Texas, obviously.
The practice is being federally investigated in America but, ya know, good luck with that with this Supreme Court, when they get around to it in ten years.