Not only can society not function without the collective input of labor, but it is unhealthy for the physical and mental well-being of those receiving benefits without contribution.

It is a obsession and like any other and is unhealthy regardless of whether you enjoy it or not.Set a goal of paying off all personal debt (personal home etc.) prior to retirement and all you should need is to replace 70% of your employment income or self employment income.Whether you are a employee or self employed to be able to retire and live a long life you must have interests to fill your life beyond work/ investing.

Americans are unhealthy and can barely afford rent.

There’s this unhealthy focus on celebrating people who buy property.

The garden is now half covered by weeds, many plants untrimmed, two plants dead due to lack of maintenance, and serious blackberry invasion on the backyard to make the original plants unhealthy...

The seller can simply tell them they want an inspection because it's been awhile and they want to make sure things are up to code from a safety standpoint because of how unhealthy it looks.Then if all checks out fine you are good to go.

For example, buying a stock with 10% return and 10% SD and a different, uncorrelated stock with 10% return and 10% SD can create a portfolio with 10% return and only 5% SD.To answer your original question, I think it's unhealthy to think of RE as "better" than the stock market.  

I have this unhealthy relationship with healthy money management.

Are you spending money on unnecessary, unhealthy processed foods, chips, soda, sugary cereal, booze?

I don't like them and I think agents have an unhealthy lock on the system but I can very simply calculate the cost of the fees into my transaction.