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pixelatedindexlast Thursday at 12:56 AM2 repliesview on HN

Aren’t you exploiting the economic condition that housing supply is extremely low, and a lot of them vote to keep supply low and prevent new builds? I’m not trying to be facetious but I find it hard to believe that landlords don’t exploit economic conditions.


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throwaway2037last Thursday at 1:58 AM

Most landlords are normies that happen to own one or two extra homes. How could these people meaningfully "exploit economic conditions"?

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Plasmoidlast Thursday at 2:01 AM

That's too broad of a concept to be useful. If you applied it like that then quitting a job would be rent seeking for the same reason