> If you're opposed to UBI on this basis, you equally ought to give up on anything redistributive (or maybe you were just right wing all along). I never said I

> If you're opposed to UBI on this basis, you equally ought to give up on anything redistributive (or maybe you were just right wing all along). I never said I was opposed to UBI. I'm simply highlighting an aspect of the housing market that makes it behave less like the libertarian ideal of a perfectly efficient market with perfect mobility and perfect information flow. In my experience, the right wingers are the ones who want to continue pretending that an obviously tilted market is somehow still acceptably efficient when it clearly isn't. Do you disagree with my assertion that moving is more difficult than buying rice from the next vendor over? That's really the only claim I made, and this is what leads me to believe that landlords are more powerful than rice vendors. Lots of people proposing "if you're worried about landlords, then you can simply do X" in this thread... I don't think the fix for this problem is going to be simple.