humans are primates and respond to what the other primates are doing, right now.. there is a reason that price extraction and gate-keeping were so massively inflated.. it worked.

side-note: one of the convicted defendants in the USC pay-to-play scandal paid a couple of hundred thousand dollars for their two kids to get placement in a prestigious college. His job title? Director of a property title clearing house in San Diego county. hundreds of thousands of dollars in "envelope" money.. get the idea of how profitable it has been to do this real estate market stuff ?