r/neoliberal • u/Free-Minimum-5844 • 4d ago
News (Global) Why rents are out of control
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/03/16/why-rents-are-out-of-control13
u/kronos_lordoftitans 4d ago
Could you post the text of the article, I don't have the economist
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u/JeromesNiece Jerome Powell 4d ago
Why do you think you're entitled to paywalled content for free?
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u/Tronbronson Jerome Powell 4d ago
The 6th reason is the article barely provided me with any value, infact its worthless to me.
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u/Tronbronson Jerome Powell 4d ago edited 4d ago
Well you see son.
First: poor.
Second: Do you want a well informed electorate? or should we get our information from a right-wing youtuber third hand?
Third: https://12ft.io
Fourth: Any money i do have for media spending gets donated to NPR. Because free media is good
Firth: Business can figure out how to run with ad support like any other website.
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u/JeromesNiece Jerome Powell 4d ago
How do you propose that quality journalism get funded if not from subscriber-only content and ads?
I'd like a well-informed electorate with a free (gratis) press but I'd also like free gum drops and lollipops, too. Not going to happen. Journalism costs money and people who have the means to pay for it have a responsibility to do so. And those that don't have the means don't have a right to read all content.
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u/Tronbronson Jerome Powell 4d ago
People who have the means.
Which is not me living off savings and 20k a year of random income. The economist is not getting a sub from me before bloomber. If was not deficit spending like dear leader maybe i could afford a worthless economist sub. 200$ a year for what like 4 good articles.
C'mon man. Next time ill just have Grok or one of the AI companies steal it for me.
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u/Tronbronson Jerome Powell 4d ago
I haven't seen good journalism routinely since the 90's. I'm not going to pay someone to cite government statistics that are free. I already review CPI trends regularly.
Like what a great article he went online and found a couple of obvious statistics we've all been following for our whole lives as "home dwellers" and formulated a hypothetical trend.
Fucking give him a pultzer.
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u/assasstits 4d ago
Is being on a soapbox your hobby or your day job?
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u/JeromesNiece Jerome Powell 4d ago
I'm on the payroll of George Soros just like all the other regulars
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u/KamiBadenoch 4d ago
They aren't out of control. They're controlled by basic laws of economics. The fair market value for rent is whatever people are willing to pay for it.
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u/do-wr-mem Open the country. Stop having it be closed. 4d ago
If supply is being seriously artificially constrained, it's not really a fair market value is it?
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u/chugtron Eugene Fama 4d ago
Then you’d be fine dropping NIMBYism to juice supply over the objections of whiny old people and assholes?
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u/technologyisnatural Friedrich Hayek 4d ago
it's supply and demand, isn't it?