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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Landlords use a service that tells them what to charge.

That way they can illegally collude to fix prices, without actually talking to each other.

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So instead of landlords gathering in smoke filled halls, planning how they will simultaneously raise rents together (which is illegal), a third-party company can be contracted by all of them to do the same thing but call it “data-driven decision making” and end up with the same result.

Collusion-as-a-service.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago

Nailed it, 100% A+ gold star. The worlds stupid, everyone's out here trying to take anything they can from everyone else.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hell, nowadays it's all owned by one big "land developer" so they don't even need the app. That's the case where I used to live, the whole neighborhood was bought out to milk renters.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Allowing companies to own housing has to be the stupidest shit ever.

[–] tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This sounds batshit insane, and it is, but it is also true. In the USA, anyway. What is even the job of the government under capitalism if not to fix this kind of shit.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

What is even the job of the government under capitalism if not to fix this kind of shit.

Lol, the job of the government under capitalism is to facilitate this kind of shit.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Straight up price fixing.