Different from others, I don't think the price is fair. But also I don't know the cost structure well enough, I can have only an educated guess.

But what I am definitely afraid of is that they will want to charge games per hour anyway. The talks that consoles will cost 2000 USD is part of it. They don't want you to own things anymore.

You can't buy a house anymore, because they rather buy and keep it to create shortages and make you pay an absurd rent.

We should be talking more about how taxes should fit into this world where they are positioning themselves to not allow people to have things, not even the basic.

For examples, in the housing thing, it should not only have higher taxes for keeping properties empty but also it should be exponential otherwise it will become a cost to people. Making it exponential make it unviable. Also, investment funds should be much more regulated and should require approval for every transaction above a threshold (which imo should be small to close loopholes). This will slow things down enough.

The demand will still exist but companies will fill the gap. We should not be relying on one single investment fund to control your health, housing and employment.

We also should be discussing on closing all the gaps that ultra rich are using to not contribute back to the system they explore. They became leeches/parasites and not putting back the amount they should is causing them to be able to break the system more and more.

The only Pacific way right now is to boy;cott these big fellas. They got to comfortable saying that we are trash and the blame of everything is on us while doing everything they can to not even pay basic rights to employees.

I also think that if you know a trillionaire employee with a white collar, they also should get bit more pressure.

I know someone working in a company which recently caused hundreds of "collateral" deaths, and for him and everyone in the company, it is not their fault they exploded innocent people. We need to put these folks back to reality, because they are the same type of trash as we are, and they don't know it.

Now I guess it is obvious why they have been building so many bunkers lately. They were definitely conspiring.

(Btw, I have a strong feeling that sxai+t might become an investment fund with several companies, but that's another conversation)

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ianm218 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Housing is largely restricted by local politics and zoning not corporate interests. There’s no conspiracy on that beyond crappy local politics.

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lp92 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Who do you think is paying to keep coming that way? Businesses that have an interest in keeping it that way, for example comercial realestate companies.

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tamcap 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Based on my personal observations, most of the local zoning restrictions in the US come from conservative local residents, and not a cabal of developers. The latter want to build.

And I am using the word conservative in the non-political sense here - opposed to change. The individual motivations are many, but ultimately, a lot of people tend to avoid change around where they live.

	▲	motbus3 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		In large cities, housing is now being built specifically for rent, and there are many early sales opportunities available exclusively to companies. In certain cities of Ireland, it is common for a new block of apartments to be sold out within the first hour. You get in a queue to visit on the first day and you don't even have a chance.

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postingawayonhn 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Real estate development is a pretty competitive business with few barriers to entry. Nobody controls enough of the market to make it worth trying to restrict other developers.

In most cities it's developers who are pushing councils/government to rezone land so they can secure additional development sites.

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ianm218 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t think so - those companies are atleast modestly pro growth. They want to do more projects. In NYC and Boston local residents talk about “evil developers” who want to replace vacant lots with homes and businesses

	▲	motbus3 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know about Boston case, but in Ireland it is common for developers to build and investment funds to buy it all in closed door meetings. So your only option is to rent. In other places of the world where I lived, it was common to rent a completely different region to only find out later the company letting the house/apartment belonged to the same group.

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thousand_nights 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

turns out, 'you will own nothing and be happy' wasn't just a meme