In every other case, in every other industry, we call people who buy a limited resource, transform it in no way, and sell it at a profit a "scalper".
For a long time I thought, "maybe landlords are offering some service and not just squeezing people...." But over the past decade it's become clearer and clearer how predatory and parasitic the industry is. Things like this. Things like landlords all using the same pricing algorithms so they can raise rents in unison.
Someday ordinary Americans may want to consider getting something similar to GDPR in place? Companies in the US are abusing the public's data and privacy in so many ways.
These things always result in victim blaming "you shouldn't post your data", but even if you don't it's legal for anyone to collect and sell your data. You can't protect yourself without better consumer protection laws.
I really hate working in software sometimes. The evil that computing is enabling now is getting harder and harder to ignore and I just feel ashamed sometimes to be in the field.
That’s nothing. You should see the desperation scores that L4 engineers and above only can see. To say nothing of the fact that Apple AI will replace your face with a leaf.
ymmv I guess, I could "afford" much more rent than I pay (I suspect many staff+ big tech employees are in similar situations, especially if you're in a relationship with another SWE...) and when we first rented the apartment we had to submit W2s that showed we could probably buy the building if I wanted to, but rent is still going to be determined by the market
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 36.4 ms ] threadFor a long time I thought, "maybe landlords are offering some service and not just squeezing people...." But over the past decade it's become clearer and clearer how predatory and parasitic the industry is. Things like this. Things like landlords all using the same pricing algorithms so they can raise rents in unison.
These things always result in victim blaming "you shouldn't post your data", but even if you don't it's legal for anyone to collect and sell your data. You can't protect yourself without better consumer protection laws.
nevertheless, housing (especially rental) is not cheap in EU. Mostly because there is limited supply.