most people will always seek to extract as much as they can from something while giving as little back as they can
This is a fairly new phenomenon during capitalism, though. People lived in community, sharing everything and contributing without measurement of work, for the longest time in human history. It’s only class society that created the breeding ground for such behavior, it’s not human nature, it’s caused by the environment.
Rent-seeking behavior is unfortunately very common.
Ngl, wanted to buy property recently for this reason.
rent-seeking is the natural state of the market unless it’s regulated as such to disincentivize it.
and by market, I mean people. most people will always seek to extract as much as they can from something while giving as little back as they can.
This is a fairly new phenomenon during capitalism, though. People lived in community, sharing everything and contributing without measurement of work, for the longest time in human history. It’s only class society that created the breeding ground for such behavior, it’s not human nature, it’s caused by the environment.