• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I generally like Biden, but that’s a crock of shit. Anytime news outlets claim that the “economy is strong”, they’re almost always talking about how it is for the investor and owner classes, not for the working class. This economy is absolute dogshit for the proles, how the hell is anybody supposed to survive under these conditions? I make OK money and I’m barely scraping by, I don’t know how the fuck anybody else is still hanging on. Housing and the price of consumer goods needs to seriously come the fuck back down to Earth, it’s squeezing people dry. I kind of wish people in apartment complexes would just start banding together and burn their rental offices down and just refuse to pay rents anymore, because whoever decides what “market rates” are for renting apartments are some of the greediest motherfuckers on the planet.

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      1 year ago

      Rental prices are sickeningly high right now it’s insane. I was excited to see that lawsuit against that rental price fixing company RealPage but it doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere, frustratingly. If all the rental agencies are using the same automated tool to set their rental prices obviously it’s going to artifically inflate them all.

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        1 year ago

        Right?! That’s a much bigger deal and one that absolutely needs a rush on taking care of but no one wants to change anything that makes a rich person somewhere money. They would rather slowly hang millions of the lower and middle classes than piss of a handful of rich people.