' You'll find buildings like this all over the place. A building like this could get filled if the goal was higher occupancy rates, but that's not the primary goal.

The system isn't collapsing, it's financializing, and that changes how the market behaves; it can make it seem nonsensical from the perspective of the renter because none of the goals are really for the renter. '

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9L12HUuI40

#urbanism #housing #rentseeking #PoliticalEconomy #LandValueTax #LVT #Economics #monopoly

As usual great work from both #7AM podcast [Solstice Media]

Beer, gas and capital gains tax
https://podcastaddict.com/7am/episode/218143647 via @PodcastAddict

and the Australia Institute

https://australiainstitute.org.au/report/tax-beer-drinkers-vs-gas-companies/

As the father of both a brewer and a winemaker I can relate to the analogy....

#rentseeking #kleptocracy #economics #auspol

"Copyright owners increasingly claim more draconian #copyright law and policy will fight back against big tech companies. In reality, copyright gives the most powerful companies even more control over creators and competitors. Today’s copyright policy concentrates power among a handful of corporate gatekeepers—at everyone else’s expense. "

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/copyright-kills-competition

#rentseeking #copyrightweek

Every regulation creates a new priesthood.

They don't solve the problem. They become gatekeepers to the solution you could have implemented yourself.

Then they sell you software to comply with rules they lobbied for.

It's not corruption, but a business model.

#Regulation #ComplianceIndustry #RentSeeking #Bureaucracy