I feel like I’ve seen this elsewhere. I checked a week back on this community and didn’t see it, so hopefully it’s not some repost my Swiss cheese brain just forgot about or missed.
Don’t forget the software that let’s them
colludeprice according to “market” rates.This is the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
He’s an embarrassment to our country.
Every show flake thinks it’s not an avalanche
Oh wow! It’s our chronic embarrassment of Prime Minister! Leader of the Landlords for Racism party
It’s not freedom when they all collude together to fuck people over in unison. No one “has a choice” to go somewhere else WHEN THEY’RE ALL FUCKING DOING IT.
One of the most enlightening things I learned as a politically-aware teenager was that markets were artificial constructs that are enabled by reliable enforcement of contract law.
A free market is sometimes good, but never natural. I’ve always kept that in mind when arguing with laissez-faire types about how the government, which enables the market they supposedly love, should ‘stay out of’ preserving the market and allow it to be captured by wealthy elites and dismantled.
That market would look a lot different with negative incentives against owning so many properties that you yourself don’t even live out of.
Their market is a product of an artificial scarcity which undermines the true supply that exists in most modern housing eco-systems.
Every conversation with a big company who says there’s nothing they can do because of the systems in place.
And in America they are actively colluding together and NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT
If landlords and everybody selling things can collude to raise prices with no formal structure, then why can’t workers do it too?
Landlords fund politicians. The opinion of a tenant? Not relevant.
You will pay infinite dollars to live.
Rentoids in tears! (it’s me, I’m rentoid and in tears)
Not saying more shouldn’t be done of course, but I just thought it’d be nice to highlight someone trying to do something for once about this at least.
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fixing-algorithm-still-price-fixing
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/12/justice-department-rental-market-collusion-lawsuit-00167838
Oh boy, try Canada! All the elected officials are landlords!
