On: Up to a Quarter of Rental Inflation Is Due to Pric...

[kibwen]

There's a good reason that "rent-seeking" is one of the biggest insults you can hurl at a business model.

[robertlagrant → kibwen]

Yes, because it's trying to make your business as legally necessary as a tax. It's to do with regulation, not renting things.

[kibwen → robertlagrant]

No, it's to do with being a useless middleman who extracts wealth without serving any productive economic purpose. Regulation isn't required in the slightest.

[robertlagrant → kibwen]

How do you do that without laws to keep your useless business' product/service in business?