Who thought it would be a good idea to make the basic need of living into a withheld commodity; while simultaneously wanting a easily available workforce.
Like, do you WANT your clerks, programmers, and office workers to be homeless or asbestos lunged because they didn’t have the endurance, charisma, and unquestioning subservience to get into medical school or Harvard Business?
One can “work really hard” all they want for a “decent paying job” ( fucked is in its own way), but that does not change the fact that the available positions that pay enough to afford exclusive housing are nominal compared to those who were competing for those open positions.
Idk if it’s a conservatives wet dream or some shit, but imagine how much more robust the spending economy would be if rent was like even like $500 less.