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Trillo

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1. Our market based system is quite a system of slavery.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 04:58 PM
Mar 2015

If you need to work, and you live where jobs are located, what would have been disposable income from the career you spent so many years in school to learn, is spent on over-inflated rents and/or housing costs.

My last landlord in Southern California told me once that rental property owners watched local indexes of wages, and made sure rents were raised everytime wages went up. The biggest employer at the time was military, so they watched those wage rates. I guess it was a wink-wink system, sort of an oligopoly.

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