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Re:How Not to Build a Country: Canada’s Late Soviet Pessimism by solidsnack9000 on Saturday September 28, 2019 @04:29PM (#21102678)
You are correct, and I am incorrect.

Predatory pricing, also known as undercutting, is a pricing strategy in which a product or service is set at a very low price with the intention to achieve new customers (Loss leader), or driving competitors out of the market or to create barriers to entry for potential new competitors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing

I should have called it "price gouging" or perhaps "profiteering".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging

There isn't really a great word for long-term exploitation of an easy structural advantage, though. Landlords don't have to form a cartel, since (a) everyone has to buy from them, (b) land is limited in supply and (c) the barrier to entry is high. Maybe it's a "natural cartel".

Re:How Not to Build a Country: Canada’s Late Soviet Pessimism by scarejunba on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:12PM (#21103234)
Fair enough. I believe they call that behaviour "rent-seeking" (in the Adam Smith sense) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking#Description Most of the value of the land is from work done not by the property owner, which is just an interesting situation.