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If you want to cite an "unfree" market (and I'm not saying that's the appropriate term) then transprotation would be a much more suitable example.
In the transpotartion market, we can provide our own vehicles but, with the prominent exception of the railroads, government has to provide and maintain the right of way.
What's more - time horizons tend todistort our motivattion; the George Washington and Golden Gate Bridges will likely bee here for centries, but we won't.
So far more than real estate, which can usually be readly bought and sold. the benefits and costs pf transportation infrastructure tend to be distorted by the political process - a big factor in why it's been neglected of late.
I bought some land and wanted to move my mobil home onto the property. The town forbid my doing that because it would "not pay enough tax and drop property values". That piece of regulation cost me thousands of dollars.
As far as I am concerned the first thing I will remove after the revolution is town zoning regulations.
I've asked this question on some of the minimum wage threads but nobody answered my questions.
So maybe others can offer some insight here?
Your question doesn't make sense. Perhaps that's why you don't get an answer. What is your question? What does minimum wage have to do with "free market". What does housing have to do with it all?
Your question doesn't make sense. Perhaps that's why you don't get an answer. What is your question? What does minimum wage have to do with "free market". What does housing have to do with it all?
Keep in mind that question came from a man who spent 4 yrs in college to get a job delivering pizzas.
> eventually they imposed a maximum unrelated occupancy of two. <
Because the top x% dont want to live near renting scum. This is a way to discourage it. They paid more than average for their house and don't want to be bothered by seeing peasant scum that cant even afford a used Lexus.
>I lived in a separate upstairs of a single family house which was divided into two units. Downstairs was a family of SIX living in two bedrooms. (The two girls shared the second bedroom, then came a boy who slept in the living room, and then another boy who got the basement.)
They probably would have done that but federal law prohibits ciscriminating against a slew of people including children.
>More recently, I rented a guest house and when the property was sold, I wanted to buy the guest house but it could not be legally split from the lot since it would have not met the minimum lot size.<
Again minimum lot sizes protect the upper crusty people from having to see peasant scum who had the temerity to try to buy a substandard sized home in their community. Some cities take these laws to extremes, others have sensible limits.
> What does minimum wage have to do with "free market". What does housing have to do with it all?< Ill take a stab at it: OP correct me if Im wrong.
Rich conservative guy wants a free market in labor with no minimum wage yet has no problem with an unfree market in real estate so he can not have to look at renters and other peasant scum where he lives.
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