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Seems like the greater story is landlords taxing the economy to death.
by threatofrain 2y ago
Seems like the greater story is landlords taxing the economy to death.
- valval 2y agoSeems like supply and demand to me. Supply being artificially controlled.
- ivewonyoung 2y agoLandlords are just like almost all the programmers reading this page, they want more money. The downstream consequences are secondary concerns at best,especially if it doesn't personally affect them.
- threatofrain 2y agoProgrammers generally don't have extractive power. They don't sell water, power, land, medicine, or legal defense. They live by pure appeal or die. For the above mentioned domains it's often the reverse; you pay or you die. It's why the poor in the US have such a difference in life expectancy.
- red-iron-pine 2y agowould you say that... rent seeking... is bad?