>Personally, I think that real estate rentierism is a far bigger problem than platforms. But addressing that offends a far broader audience, and lacks novelty,

>Personally, I think that real estate rentierism is a far bigger problem than platforms. But addressing that offends a far broader audience, and lacks novelty, even if the scale of rentierism is affecting higher income quantiles than in anybody's memory. That's a pretty good summary, yeah. As vile as Facebook spying and YouTube's hit-rate algorithm can be, most people are more affected by old-fashioned landlording, with the semi-novel twist that the metropole and its inhabitants try to limit the number of people who can move in and "compete for jobs", rather than dragooning people out of the countryside to work in labor-intensive industries.