Hard to believe your post got 4 upvotes. It's full of vaguery, incompleteness, jumps in conclusions, ignorance and just being wrong.

"Private rental markets drive up property prices for everyone & make rents unaffordable"
-Private rental markets can drive the property prices in both directions. If you reduce regulations, builders will build more housing resulting in more competitio and lower rental prices. So your vague statement is incomplete, jumps to conclusions and ultimately incorrect.

"It raises the prices of everything else in order to service the unreasonable demands of property owners."
-What? So the chocolate bars at my local gorcery store are going to go up in price to service property owners? Did you even read what you wrote?

"Basically, the "landed rich" sit back, do nothing, & watch the money roll in"
-Sit back and do nothing? They had to earn their investment money, they had to do work to identify the property/land they wanted to buy, think about how it might be profitable or not, risk their investment money, possibly make house & thus neighbourhood improvements, pay taxes, pay for all kinds of permits and abide by gov regulations, search for a tenant that isn't going to destroy all that, and then provide housing for somebody who otherwise couldn't afford to buy one. Sometimes the capitalists work much harder than you do, and nearly always risk their money in ways you're unwilling to. You're basically looking at a winner and claiming he just got there at the last second to cross the line and did nothing to deserve it. Check your ignorance!

"Most economists regard rent-seeking as a bad thing: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... [wikipedia.org]. "
-Pretty sure that article doesn't cite "most economists" for starters. Secondly, the article is kind of a left leaning pile of garbage I don't even want to waste my time arguing against. It's imediately obvious in the first paragraph when they accuse "manipulation of social and political environment", "not creating new wealth", "reduced economic efficiency", lost government revnue (like What?!) ... 100% of the statements are fully counter arguably, but ultimately just WRONG. It's a laugh out loud article.

"What we're seeing now are the results of decades of deregulation & governments abandoning public housing responsibilities."
- Did you wake up in opposite land? What we're actually seeing is the results of decades of EXCESSIVE regulation, preventing more house building, which would solve a huge part of the high priced housing problem. What's happened is the government created so many rules, only the richest can afford to abide by them all and rule the land so to speak.

"Building more houses won't reduce prices because housing doesn't work that way"
- HahahahahahahahAHAHAEHHAhAhA How can anyone take you seriously after a ridiculous statement like that? The foundation of markets is exactly all about supply & demand. It's how price discovery happens. Did you even take Econ 101?

Utter nonsense. Go back to school.

Time to call it Open?AI

And many today won't even notice it missing...

eInk held so many promises, and yet we're stuck with massively overpriced and underperforming screens compared to other technologies. This should easily land in a "Bottom 10 product ideas" for the year and summaries to come.

Well, it has a 5 year warranty, so replace it under warranty, right?

A warning shot does not mean you will miss with the next one.

I will add my metoo... Funny enough it was the rampant trolling, spam and infighting that drove me off. Seems to be gone now. Hmmm...

Some devs have some strong beliefs. But they are kept in check by the others that can patch it or fork it. They tried putting in a hard coded filter on some far right key words, and had to backtrack.

No and no... First, Lemmy can not "go evil." Lemmy.ml can go evil. And people can chose not to federate with them. But there are lots of lemmy servers. And mastodon servers. And kbin... It is more like email. Yes, lemmy.ml is the gmail of the lemmy ecosystem, but you do not need a gmail account to send email. And yes, you need to pick you home carefully. Like email. And you need to pick the home for your group carefully as well. But you can, and they can move and it still works.

I think if they fired spez and hung it all on him, it could work. A lot of people hate him so he could take the blame. And he slandered a dev in the public arena so they have cause. But short of that, I think people will be looking elsewhere.

That depends on how badly they break it now.

This! People hate facebook but could not get their friends to move to mewant and steemit. And right now the people at lemmy, kbin and mastodon are are working their butts off to not screw up this golden opportunity of people looking for options. If any federated social networking gains critical mass, things for all social networking will get very interesting.

So did the last of the investors.

This kind of reminds me of the cycle of data center/edge/data center/edge that technology seems to go through over time. It is also a keen reminder that certain orgs are always behind the curve, and by the time they move to the 'next big thing', everyone else has already decided on a different approach, and it will be another 7-12 years before they catch on to the 'next big thing'... We are 17 years since AWS started offering self provisioned data center. 13 years since Amazon transitioned onto it. Given the growth of the power of individual systems, and the price tag of them, it was always inevitable that people would recognize that storying Petabytes of info on their own stuff gets a LOT more affordable when you can by 20TB SATA drives for the same price today that .5TB drives sold for in 2006. Same goes for server hardware in a VM/containerized/orchestrated environment vs 1 server per service... Given the abuses of the 'trust us, it's your data and our hardware/service' that are going to continue to get worse, why risk it when you don't have to?

Since he bought Twitter, Tesla is down ~30%. The other automakers are about even. He's spending all his time on Twitter, while Tesla is on a backburner (with increasing numbers of recalls, WAY up compared to a couple of years ago). And no one I know would now want to work there. He'd be lucky if his $44B investment was now worth even half that if he tried to sell it (maybe far less than that).