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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by notSupplied on Monday December 07, 2020 @04:21PM (#25337723)
If a landowner is having trouble making a profit on rent due to high mortgage costs, that just means that the wealth was captured by the previous owner via a high sale price. So the point still stands that a disproportionate amount of wealth is flowing to land instead of capital or labor.
Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by bcheung on Monday December 07, 2020 @04:38PM (#25337934)
Appreciation is not rent seeking though. Also, savings is what funds capital investment. There's no capital without previous profit.
Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by CountSessine on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:35PM (#25340494)
Appreciation is not rent seeking though.

It most certainly is, if at the same time you're hanging out at city council meetings protesting construction and housing development. The cost of housing in SFBA isn't really the cost of land - its the cost of regulation. It's the marginal cost of building new housing.