> A landlord duopoly would not have the political power to get the restrictions passed in the first place. I'm at a loss on how to respond to this. This is exa

> A landlord duopoly would not have the political power to get the restrictions passed in the first place. I'm at a loss on how to respond to this. This is exactly the polar opposite of how our (USA) political system works. Huge corporations are very well connected with the politicians. They contribute to their campaigns, go to all their fund raisers, play golf together. In exchange, they get to have a massive influence in how laws are written in their favor. You can search for endless cases where these companies directly write the text of the laws and then just pass it through their buddy legislator. In any market where there are only a few huge players, you can be 100% certain those players are connected with the politicians and buying their way into favorable legislation at every point. The only way to prevent that corruption is to have lots of tiny competitors, none of whom are rich/powerful enough to drive the laws to their benefit.