Readit NewsIf a corporation thinks there is demand in some city, goes and build housing for that demand and then rents that housing, that is good for the world.
Would be a better policy than letting corporations use their access to capital markets to outcompete individuals trying to buy a house.
There has been a bit of a panic around "Investors buying up all the property!!!" With people often citing Black Rock and Blackstone as the main culprits. But most of the "investors" buying up property are individuals purchasing investment properties.
Here's an article on the topic from 2023[0], a bit old but my understanding is large institutional investment in residential real estate was already starting to cool down.
Black rock isn't buying up all the housing, your neighbors are.
I suspect this statement, and even if it becomes an actual ban, is largely to gain wider popular support around a largely imaginary concern people have.
0. https://www.housingwire.com/articles/no-wall-street-investor...
Starting with a low subscription price also has the effect of atrophying people's ability to self-serve. The alternative to a subscription is usually capital-intensive - if you want to cancel Netflix you need to have a DVD collection. If you want to cancel your thin client you have to build a PC. Most modern consumers live on a knife edge where $20/month isn't perceptible but $1000 is a major expense.
The classic VC-backed model is to subsidize the subscription until people become complacent, and then increase the price once they're dependent. People who self-host are nutjobs because the cloud alternative is "cheaper and better" until it stops being cheaper.
Going line by line I learned how much I neglected these transactions being the source of my problem. Could I afford it? Yes. But saving and investing is a better vehicle for retirement early than these minor dopamine hits
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/how-medicare-negot...
ref- The Billion Dollar Molecule
Some logic as for AI generated abuse material.
You could also argue in the other way that it could prevent real abuse.
Maybe a study would be useful if such a study doesn’t exist already