A Boring Dystopia

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Rent is theft (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by zedgeist@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] Innerworld@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Rent-seeking behavior is unfortunately very common.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago

Ngl, wanted to buy property recently for this reason.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

rent-seeking is the natural state of the market unless it's regulated as such to disincentivize it.

and by market, I mean people. most people will always seek to extract as much as they can from something while giving as little back as they can.