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> how desperate the sales people were for residents, and still be told that rent was going up hundreds of dollars a month because of demand in the region This
by ClumsyPilot 3y ago
> how desperate the sales people were for residents, and still be told that rent was going up hundreds of dollars a month because of demand in the region
This literally sounds fraudulent
I have a hypothesis, that the reason for many ailments in Western economies is that in the past 20-30 years we have created a lot of parasitic, highly-sophisticated economic fraud, and regulators have not caught up to it yet.
- harvey9 3y agoMany legislators are also residential landlords. Do not expect those regulators to be catching up any time soon.
- passwordoops 3y agoNot that sophisticated. The tech industry in particular celebrates rentierism and middle men while calling it a "service". Any other way to describe darlings like Uber, AirBNB, what Amazon became, many SaaS (looking at you MSFT Office) is simply disingenuous
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoIt would be a much better world if we could get rid of rentierism.
- lm28469 3y ago> I have a hypothesis Well, it's more than an hypothesis, there are books about it: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781847927279 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-va...