Everyone’s a missionary spreading some mind virus about why their figurative babble is worth another meal on your dime.
Why let another meat suit infect you with vacuous prestige language? They’re just one of billions. The flow of stuff we need is just data anyone can learn to understand. They’re hardly magic beings with divine vision. Their semantics need not be the futures.
Rent-seeking is when a landlord doesn't make serious improvements, but merely sits on the land as titleholder and gets money for it.
That's exactly what's happening here. Investors buy houses. Drive up prices astronomically. And make money from them. Oh, and they also use software tools to coordinate driving those prices up.
They even have the regulatory capture part down, where zoning has created a massive housing shortage to keep prices going up.