Yes, lawmakers should come ASAP and make everybody pay rents that will ultimately not even be pocketed by the median creator/developer. What a fantastic vision! What a feast for the capitalist beast …
No, the landlords and the activists who block new development should be shamed. They're milking the tech industry for all it's worth, with the side effect that middle income people are thrown under the bus. The tech industry is the victim of this scam.
You think rent seeking isn't being rewarded? What planet do you live on? Landlords are making out like bandits and even raising rents just because they can
How about patent trolls? The list goes on, rent seeking is capitalism at its finest
Reddit have used VC money to artificially put rent at zero, destroying community driven forums in the progress.
In a landlord analogy, it would be like opening a big mall and lure shops and consumers at a loss, making the city centre a void, then raise prices when the original functional community in the city is lost.
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