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  • It’s insane how conditioned people are on price fixing.

    The US has used it many times to make necessary adjustments to society throughout our country’s history.

    Rent caps were one of the most influential and positive policies of the New Deal.

    It’s not an inherently bad policy.

    If there is something inherently unethical like overcharging for a need (yes in our modern world being educated is a need to actually participate in society), then it is acceptable for the government to step in and draw the line.

    Student debt should be totally canceled, college should be free, and the government should take a fraction of what was being extorted out of students by predatory loan companies and pay it directly to the schools. Let the unethical loan sharks fucking eat the loss for trying to run a racket. They shouldn’t have more power than the god damn government.

    Same with housing, it’s a public secret that massive housing corps colluse using price fixing algorithms, it’s correct in this situation for the government to step in and force rent caps. Let the unethical slumlords eat the loss. They shouldn’t have more power than the god damn government.