its all rent seeking, speculation, and capture of black markets from here on out
January 2, 2026 at 3:38 PM
its all rent seeking, speculation, and capture of black markets from here on out
Zohran getting rid of rent-seeking regulations like a true market socialist.
Mamdani is cutting red tape and unleashing the market, from the left
January 2, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Zohran getting rid of rent-seeking regulations like a true market socialist.
The Regime will eliminate all rent-seeking regulations to recreate actually existing socialist utopia (Shenzhen)
January 2, 2026 at 1:59 PM
The Regime will eliminate all rent-seeking regulations to recreate actually existing socialist utopia (Shenzhen)
The technology industry is deliberately and systematically moving from being a value-creating and job-creating industry to being a purely extractive and rent-seeking industry.
January 2, 2026 at 1:54 PM
The technology industry is deliberately and systematically moving from being a value-creating and job-creating industry to being a purely extractive and rent-seeking industry.
Remember when studios and labels and publishers took risks? Nurtured creators? Created marketing that took the pressure off the artists? SOLD things instead of simply flooding the market with hegemonic reduplication and status quo?
Now, in the age of desktop publishing, it's purely rent-seeking.
Now, in the age of desktop publishing, it's purely rent-seeking.
January 2, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Remember when studios and labels and publishers took risks? Nurtured creators? Created marketing that took the pressure off the artists? SOLD things instead of simply flooding the market with hegemonic reduplication and status quo?
Now, in the age of desktop publishing, it's purely rent-seeking.
Now, in the age of desktop publishing, it's purely rent-seeking.
No, we know about all of those things. Seriously, people have been studying and developing plans for universal healthcare in the U.S. for DECADES.
Mark Cuban has nothing new but the same old tire capitalist enshittification and rent-seeking that technoglibertarian dipshits like him always propose.
Mark Cuban has nothing new but the same old tire capitalist enshittification and rent-seeking that technoglibertarian dipshits like him always propose.
Those critizizing @mcuban.bsky.social are not paying attention. He captures so much correct - roles of PBMs (even overlooked detail of rebates cheating HDHP members), mess of employers' mgt, bad ins companies, and American culture. Rick Scott reference without mentioning Columbia/HCA fraud ⛔️.
January 2, 2026 at 12:07 AM
No, we know about all of those things. Seriously, people have been studying and developing plans for universal healthcare in the U.S. for DECADES.
Mark Cuban has nothing new but the same old tire capitalist enshittification and rent-seeking that technoglibertarian dipshits like him always propose.
Mark Cuban has nothing new but the same old tire capitalist enshittification and rent-seeking that technoglibertarian dipshits like him always propose.
Pay their taxes and not exploit others. Rent-seeking is a term I too recently learned about that entails much of the evils of having to pay for nothing. Where's the value added by health insurance for example.
January 1, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Pay their taxes and not exploit others. Rent-seeking is a term I too recently learned about that entails much of the evils of having to pay for nothing. Where's the value added by health insurance for example.
Mamdani’s primary advantage over Brandon Johnson is he’s not a stone cold moron. His secondary advantage is he isn’t trying to do disastrous rent seeking for the teacher’s union.
I think people are underestimating how much Mamdani, even more so than your average elected leftist, see it as his top priority to not be seen as a failed mayor. He is not going to be another Brandon Johnson, I’d wager
January 1, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Mamdani’s primary advantage over Brandon Johnson is he’s not a stone cold moron. His secondary advantage is he isn’t trying to do disastrous rent seeking for the teacher’s union.
Meanwhile the democratic socialist country that is Denmark produces more billionaires per capita than the USA. The American rent seeking barons really haven’t got this figured out.
January 1, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Meanwhile the democratic socialist country that is Denmark produces more billionaires per capita than the USA. The American rent seeking barons really haven’t got this figured out.
Supply management is extremely dumb petite bourgeois rent seeking but it’s such a funny thesis that it brings down the government.
January 1, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Supply management is extremely dumb petite bourgeois rent seeking but it’s such a funny thesis that it brings down the government.
Rent seeking is bad folks. Rent seeking by labor that harms new construction and abuses CEQA is doubly so.
January 1, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Rent seeking is bad folks. Rent seeking by labor that harms new construction and abuses CEQA is doubly so.
According to Oxfam, in 2025 'the $2.2tn growth in net worth for the world’s wealthiest 500 individuals would have been enough to lift 3.8 billion people out of poverty': www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de... A global wealth tax is essential to hit rent-seeking by oligarchs and to pay for public goods.
Billionaires added record $2.2tn in wealth in 2025
Just eight billionaires accounted for a quarter of the gains, led by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Larry Page
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:34 PM
According to Oxfam, in 2025 'the $2.2tn growth in net worth for the world’s wealthiest 500 individuals would have been enough to lift 3.8 billion people out of poverty': www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de... A global wealth tax is essential to hit rent-seeking by oligarchs and to pay for public goods.
Dickens presented the perfect depiction of a system designed to support the rent-seeking of its own interests.
"The one great principle of the English law, is to make business for itself"
This is why no one should expect technological advances like AI to cut the costs of law!!
"The one great principle of the English law, is to make business for itself"
This is why no one should expect technological advances like AI to cut the costs of law!!
January 1, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Dickens presented the perfect depiction of a system designed to support the rent-seeking of its own interests.
"The one great principle of the English law, is to make business for itself"
This is why no one should expect technological advances like AI to cut the costs of law!!
"The one great principle of the English law, is to make business for itself"
This is why no one should expect technological advances like AI to cut the costs of law!!
It's pure rent seeking at this point.
January 1, 2026 at 1:08 AM
It's pure rent seeking at this point.
Almost the entire power base of the GOP on the state level are owners of the worst rent seeking shit imaginable
De facto outlawing of car dealers and realtors as currently constituted would be a good aim for a starting point
January 1, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Almost the entire power base of the GOP on the state level are owners of the worst rent seeking shit imaginable
that sounds like a case for making post modern labor unions without Luddites while also curbing modern labor unions’ drive towards extractive rent seeking
December 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
that sounds like a case for making post modern labor unions without Luddites while also curbing modern labor unions’ drive towards extractive rent seeking
This isn't a bad approach, but it doesn't do anything to address the massive inefficiencies in the for-profit healthcare system. Without reform and regulation of the form profit, rent seeking and cost of service could balloon.
December 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This isn't a bad approach, but it doesn't do anything to address the massive inefficiencies in the for-profit healthcare system. Without reform and regulation of the form profit, rent seeking and cost of service could balloon.
When my friend switched to concierge medicine, he had more time to spend with patients, offered more services because he didn't need to fund a staff of five just to fight insurance companies every day.
Adminstrative burden, rent seeking, profits -- billions of $$$ that could go to helping people.
Adminstrative burden, rent seeking, profits -- billions of $$$ that could go to helping people.
December 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
When my friend switched to concierge medicine, he had more time to spend with patients, offered more services because he didn't need to fund a staff of five just to fight insurance companies every day.
Adminstrative burden, rent seeking, profits -- billions of $$$ that could go to helping people.
Adminstrative burden, rent seeking, profits -- billions of $$$ that could go to helping people.
Mark pretends to ignore the facts - and the multiple economic analysis over the years - that removing the rent -seeking and adminstrative burdens in the US healthcare system would lead to massive gains in efficiencies.
The public option is a threat because it exposes a more efficient system.
The public option is a threat because it exposes a more efficient system.
December 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Mark pretends to ignore the facts - and the multiple economic analysis over the years - that removing the rent -seeking and adminstrative burdens in the US healthcare system would lead to massive gains in efficiencies.
The public option is a threat because it exposes a more efficient system.
The public option is a threat because it exposes a more efficient system.
Real flourishing is boring and unsexy: housing, healthcare, childcare, wages, unions, safety nets, functional governance, and less rent-seeking. It’s not a hero’s journey, it’s plumbing.
6/8
6/8
December 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Real flourishing is boring and unsexy: housing, healthcare, childcare, wages, unions, safety nets, functional governance, and less rent-seeking. It’s not a hero’s journey, it’s plumbing.
6/8
6/8
For a company composed entirely of people who really really hate Google, they sure are speed running that same exact business arc. Except for the part of being successful for years without constant injections of VC funding or predatory rent seeking. So actually just all the bad parts of Google
December 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
For a company composed entirely of people who really really hate Google, they sure are speed running that same exact business arc. Except for the part of being successful for years without constant injections of VC funding or predatory rent seeking. So actually just all the bad parts of Google
The loss of unions correlates with the loss of manufacturing jobs, the only place unions ever had real strength. I would say tax policy is more responsible for wealth transfer than the loss of unions, who created as many problems as they solved. They turn into rent-seeking organizations.
December 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The loss of unions correlates with the loss of manufacturing jobs, the only place unions ever had real strength. I would say tax policy is more responsible for wealth transfer than the loss of unions, who created as many problems as they solved. They turn into rent-seeking organizations.
Transactional fascism: containing all the characteristics of traditional fascist ideology but with the added element of personal rent seeking at the highest levels as a primary motivating factor.
This is how I have come to frame my understanding of the current US federal government...
This is how I have come to frame my understanding of the current US federal government...
December 31, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Transactional fascism: containing all the characteristics of traditional fascist ideology but with the added element of personal rent seeking at the highest levels as a primary motivating factor.
This is how I have come to frame my understanding of the current US federal government...
This is how I have come to frame my understanding of the current US federal government...
We're into using $ saved up for car repairs on a new microwave because our current 1 is breaking territory.
And still needing to scrape together rent from month to month with our main breadwinner job seeking.
Dealing with cancer, ADHD burnout, vet bills, etc.
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And still needing to scrape together rent from month to month with our main breadwinner job seeking.
Dealing with cancer, ADHD burnout, vet bills, etc.
#MutualAid
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December 31, 2025 at 3:26 AM
We're into using $ saved up for car repairs on a new microwave because our current 1 is breaking territory.
And still needing to scrape together rent from month to month with our main breadwinner job seeking.
Dealing with cancer, ADHD burnout, vet bills, etc.
#MutualAid
gofund.me/57c95a894
And still needing to scrape together rent from month to month with our main breadwinner job seeking.
Dealing with cancer, ADHD burnout, vet bills, etc.
#MutualAid
gofund.me/57c95a894
To the degree that the Epstein files all come out, I'm just hoping their revelations finally wipe out the public and private opportunities for a class of rent seeking politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats, academics, and financiers too stupid or too pedophilic for any role in society.
December 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
To the degree that the Epstein files all come out, I'm just hoping their revelations finally wipe out the public and private opportunities for a class of rent seeking politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats, academics, and financiers too stupid or too pedophilic for any role in society.