Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami...
by mpyne on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:11PM
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100,000 votes (and really probably closer to 150,000 influenceable votes across those households) is a significant number compared to 10 companies who own an average of 10,000 properties each, yes.
Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami...
by _silicon on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:52PM
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Companies with tremendous wealth manipulate voters and lobby their representatives. Don’t presume that voters are remotely well-informed of who backs their interests.
Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami...
by mpyne on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:37PM
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If wealth could simply buy elections then Clinton would have won over Trump in 2016 and Sanders would have won the primary over Biden in 2020.
Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami...
by austhrow743 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @07:03PM
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Consider every other expense that people have that's supplied by companies (see: literally everything). Why have those companies not successfully lobbied to prevent competition? Industries where it happens are the exception, not the rule.
Is that really true in the US?