I guess I need to hear more about your seniority rules. If I leave in a city all my life and leave for a month, do I have to start over when I move back?

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vkou an hour ago | parent [-]

Not sure what your point is. My point is that the rules around rent exist to protect current residents of a city. Just like rules about immigration exist to protect current residents of a country.

If you think one of them is immoral and unfair, but the other isn't, you're the one who needs to square that cognitive dissonance - not me.

It sounds like you generally think economics should trump the welfare of existing residents. That's certainly a view, but a logical consequence of it is wide-open borders.

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TurdF3rguson 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

> you're the one who needs to square that cognitive dissonance - not me.

No, you are. You have imaginary rules about who should be protected in a city (based on seniority??) that nobody else is aware of and are certainly not following. It goes by things like age and net worth, and basically nobody gives a shit how long you've lived somewhere.

	▲	vkou 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> You have imaginary rules about who should be protected in a city (based on seniority??) Rent control is not imaginary (Any more than any other rules are), and yes, that is exactly how it functions, for the purpose that I have described. It advantages senior occupants (Who are grandfathered into controlled rates), at the expense of junior ones, or ones who don't live there yet (Who are presented with inflated rates, for obvious economic reasons).