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'Such agents sometimes hesitated to push rents higher. Roper said they were often peers of the people they were renting to. “We said there’s way too much empath
by mattkrause 4y ago
'Such agents sometimes hesitated to push rents higher. Roper said they were often peers of the people they were renting to. “We said there’s way too much empathy going on here,” he said. “This is one of the reasons we wanted to get pricing off-site.”'
Yikes!
- IAmGraydon 4y ago[flagged]
- armatav 4y agoIt’s a system where relentless money printing cripples it by forcing that perspective. You need to gamble in order to keep your shirt, or you need to raise prices. Simple solution is not to print money. Capitalism is not the problem.
- carlivar 4y agoI agree. As an exercise, consider who has more impact over your life: Joseph Biden or Jay Powell?
- svnpenn 4y agoI totally agree. Apple makes $300 billion in revenue a year, they are barely keeping their shirt!
- armatav 4y agoApple’s not a single dude working for $40 an hour into his broken savings account last time I checked. Downvote it all you want, money printing is the issue - not “capitalism”. Sound money eliminates this problem.
- JoBrad 4y agoRe-wording so it doesn’t sound like I’m trolling. Commodity and housing prices have had steep price increases well before central banks printed money excessively.
- armatav 4y agoNo, in cases where supply was not constrained, they absolutely did not.
- Gibbon1 4y agoRentier Capitalism rewards sociopathy.
- nickpp 4y ago[flagged]
- dang 4y agoPlease don't post ideological flamewar comments to HN. It leads to flamewar hell, an information-free entropic state that we're trying to avoid here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 4y agoPlease don't post ideological flamewar comments to HN. It leads to flamewar hell, an information-free entropic state that we're trying to avoid here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- anigbrowl 4y agoIt's unfortunate that you don't apply this standard evenly. There are regular posters of long standing who are equally ideologically driven and engage in flamewars on the regular (including in this discussion) and you never say a word to them.
- dang 4y agoLinks? How am I supposed to respond to a drive-by accusation without specifics? What I can tell you is that the answer almost certainly boils down to: (1) we can't moderate what we don't see, so yes - the standards get applied inconsistently, and (2) Passionate ideologues of every flavor are convinced that we secretly let the other side off easier. The actual dynamics are random but everybody overinterprets the randomness—always in the same direction: the mods are against me. The mods are not against you.
- anigbrowl 4y agoWe've had this conversation before; you are just as capable of seeing the whole thread as I am, and I think you understand that I'm asking you to look at the patterns in it. An obvious place to start would be deeply nested sub-threads with a low # of participants like this one, which was eventually pruned by being flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33225480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33225480 I don't feel you're 'against me', because I didn't have any participation in the thread at the time most of the discussion took place, and in any case it's been years since you shut down any of my comments. What perplexes me is how a subthread like the one above (which got pretty snarky) was allowed to evolve without interference, whereas you acted quickly to chastise a person who made a single comment that didn't kick off a flamewar, and wasn't directed at any HN user or group of people. Certainly nobody has the time, will, or desire to read every comment, but it's easy to observe the structure of a thread in diagrammatic form and see behavioral signals emerging before getting to any of the textual content.