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Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ... by jjoonathan on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @10:47AM (#32332499)
Yep. Even worse: the housing market.

The pattern seems to be: if you create value, you get optimized away. If you buy, screw things up to create scarcity, and flip, you make bank.

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Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ... by jollyllama on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @10:58AM (#32332639)
Absolutely. Also, higher education.
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Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ... by jjoonathan on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @11:24AM (#32332997)
Health care, housing, and education -- every year you pay more and get less.

It's like Amdahl's Law for capitalism: some things are easy to optimize, other things aren't, and eventually the things that aren't easy to optimize dominate the system.

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