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by Spooky23 824 days ago
In a free market, shouldn’t the customer know which merchants have policies that aren’t consistent with their interests? It’s funny how these sacred principles of business are one-way streets to many.

There’s no category of rent seeker less worthy of benefit of the doubt than a NYC landlord.

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Nyc is npt a freemarket. If you read the page the worst evictors are targetting rent stabilized ( i.e way below market) tenants, renovating and returning the unit to the market price. If your concern is for a free market, the evictors are the heros here (the villain would be the government and its onerous regulation causing shortage and price pressure then failing to solve it because they chose price controls rather than getting out of the way)
Talk about stuffing words in my mouth.

‘Getting out of the way’ in NYC means empty billionaire towers to facilitate money laundering.