"With vacancies on the rise, some landlords are doling out one-time discounts to attract renters while maintaining high asking rents on paper"
  • Zeppo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    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.socialEnglish
        4·
        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.worksEnglish
        1·
        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.orgEnglish
        11·
        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.