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gazebo2yesterday at 9:20 PM1 replyview on HN

But that state action is the direct result of wealth's influence over the state and how it operates


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inglor_czyesterday at 9:25 PM

Two of the three (housing and education) don't seem to be caused by that.

Neither restrictive zoning, nor the administrative bloat in academia that caused tuition to skyrocket, were lobbied into existence by people like Bezos and Musk. They are result of tireless lobbying of relatively unimportant people seeking their own little rent.

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