Why should they? I could ask you to take a 30% pay cut and you rightly would ignore my request, so why should landlords decrease rent? The solution when market

Why should they? I could ask you to take a 30% pay cut and you rightly would ignore my request, so why should landlords decrease rent? The solution when market price is out-of-whack is to solve the cause of that, not politely ask suppliers to change their prices or consumers what they are willing to pay.