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Re:I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you d... by JackFr on Friday February 24, 2023 @02:39PM (#34928997)
> like the global market for cocaine.

The global market for cocaine is highly regulated by very violent men with guns.

It is for that reason that drug consumers favor legalization but drug suppliers oppose it.

Re:I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you d... by CPLX on Friday February 24, 2023 @02:44PM (#34929071)
All global markets are highly regulated by very violent men with guns.

The interesting part is who those men with guns are accountable to.

Re:I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you d... by drewcoo on Friday February 24, 2023 @03:16PM (#34929502)
Governments normally maintain monopolies on violence.