How about this: you can’t use price signals to lower demand for something that’s a basic need.
There was a push to end rent-bidding recently, but they said no of course we need rent bidding, how else are you meant to respond to rising demand, except by pricing poor people out of the market?
Yeah no. It’s not OK to do that.
Luxury items, it’s still mildly sociopathic if you think about it but fine, whatever.
But basic human needs don’t go away if you make them too expensive, and it’s fundamentally not OK to triage them by wealth.
Imagine if they implemented this as a solution for overcrowded emergency rooms. Okay people, wait times are getting pretty long, so we’re charging you all $10,000 just to stay in the queue; pay up or go home. Yay, it’s looking way emptier out there, we fixed healthcare.
There would be heads on spikes before the week was out.
Doing the same thing with shelter is just as fucking inappropriate.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
lmfao at the arrow on the graph “the market did not do this”
You can practically feel the frustration of the author.
TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gareth is a good bloke.