• Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
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            1 year ago

            I think it’s somewhat the opposite. Being forced to pay an extortionate price because otherwise you will be homeless, lose your possession, live on the street, beg friends or family for help, or live in a homeless shelter, isn’t a free market.

              • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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                1 year ago

                You could use that reasoning to justify that anything is a free market. The government is free to pass laws, the people are free to overthrow it.

              • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
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                1 year ago

                Kind of. It’s artificially inflated by private parties lobbying and achieving regulatory capture to manipulate the market by constricting supply.

              • CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org
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                1 year ago

                Freedom to be assfucked. isn’t freedom. Freedom would be choice, that way I can pick whatever tier I feel like spending on. We don’t have that.

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        1 year ago

        My eye twitches a little every time a realtor calls depreciating house prices a “market correction”. Bitch please, an actual correction would be a 50% reduction in value.

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          Well the market disagrees with you. And as long as people are forking over $1 million for a starter home and all other equities and commodities are at all time highs, prices won’t budge.