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Ditovontease t1_itu54ky wrote

No one owes you shit for buying up properties and renting it out ABOVE market rate. Like what the hell is wrong with you

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Richmond92 t1_ituibul wrote

You’re describing a libertarian lala land that does not exist and has not existed since the era of the Great Depression. And I don’t think I need to tell you why the Great Depression happened. If you had actually taken the “Econ 101” class you’re touting in this thread, you might have learned about cartels, market manipulation, and monopoly capitalism. These cartels are not abiding by some natural law of “supply and demand”. They have collectively taken control of the market such that they no longer need to abide by “supply and demand” economics.

Telling someone to “just move somewhere else” is the sort of argument a 16 year old libertarian kid makes when people start making points about the limits of unregulated markets. These 16 year olds have never had families or maintained jobs beyond 6 months at the baskin robbins. There is far more nuance to the economic landscape than the maxim of “supply and demand”, principally because that maxim doesn’t remotely reflect upon how the real world works.

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