RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to renters

Re:RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to ren... by skew-aberration on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:13AM (#50402938)

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

Land ownership is the biggest business and the source of the biggest conspiracies.

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Re:RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to ren... by grafmax on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:47PM (#50407431)

Roughly 40% of the US GDP is rentier capitalism. It's much bigger than just land rent. Finance, utilities, mining. Healthcare with its artificial overheads. VC-backed tech companies with their loss leaders that transform into network effects and switching costs.

Billionaires do fund the land rent narrative though. Presumably because it takes the focus from their own economic parasitism.

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