• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It certainly isn’t capitalist to have such an insane gap between offer and supply

    Sure it is! Capitalists just do it in the opposite direction; keep supply low so prices stay high.

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      No, that’s an effect of collusion and cartelization of the economy. It’s because you have very few actors supplying the product and the barriers of creating a similar product are too high, so new competitors cannot access the market. Then the current suppliers can sit on the product and wait for it to be at the right price, as long as it doesn’t go to waste.

      As you can see, all of this screens about real estate:

      • Cartelization/collusion: The aren’t that many companies that have properties on sale
      • High cost to enter: Building is pricey, and it depends on the location of the property more than anything. So a building in one neighborhood is not a direct replacement of a building in another neighborhood.
      • Real estate does not go to waste. Unless bad luck or poor choices, your building should work fine for a couple of generations. And worst case scenario, the land already has a price.

      This is the time when governments should intervene and come up with a proposal to solve the cartelization.

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        We have a solution, it is called anti trust legislation. We need to break up all of these too large to fail organizations. It’s ridiculous that we have only a handful of major players in soo many markets.

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            The anti trust act is a federal law… I’m not sure where you inject city hall with breaking up cartels or large multinational businesses.

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          Oops, the businesses bought the politicians and now they won’t pass anti-trust legislation. Who could have seen this coming???

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            _Looks at Anti Trust legislation that was passed over a hundred years ago and scratches head.

            Sherman Act 1880 Clayton Act 1914 Federal Trade Commission Act 1914_

            We don’t need new laws, we need people appointed to the FTC who will enforce the law more aggressively.

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              Yeah, and what happened to that legislation? Businesses bought the right politicians and defanged everything that inhibited their profits. Businesses have their thumbs on the scale making sure the FTC doesn’t have the right people to be a threat.

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        That’s wrong. In many countries boomers possess a truckload of the estate, but they don’t expect to sell it because it’s their life insurance.

        It’s not cartel or collusion, it’s how society was planned by the libs over the last 50 years.

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          “Planned by the libs”, as if the “libs” were a single entity that have a homogeneous plan. Let’s stop giving entity to stuff that never existed and realise that there is a structural problem that occurred because of bad management of our economy and policies. Because we had mediocre actors and in some cases actors with bad faith.

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            That’s what I call the libs: it’s not an entity, it’s the politicians with this ideology. Feel free to turn that into a conspiracy.

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          Are you making up a special magical definition for “libs”? Good luck with that.