On: Rent control is keeping rents high in San Francisco

[NoRagrets]

Food is not only insanely subsidized ..in the United States, it is cheap due to imports from developing countries and exploited farm labour.

Also: farmers get 7.8c of every food dollar.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/02/why-f...

[..] Economists say those trends, coupled with low commodity prices, caused farmers’ share of consumer food spending to fall 1.2 cents in 2016, reaching the lowest point, adjusted for inflation, since USDA began the measure in 1993. (It's the latest year for which data is available).[..]

[stale2002 → NoRagrets]

So, then you agree that nobody is going to the grocery store, and forcing them to sell cereal for less than 5 dollars?

You agree that nobody is going in to restaurants and telling them that they must sell a hamburger for less than 15$?

That is the kind of thing that I am comparing it to.

Rent control does this, whereas the government is not forcing restaurants to sell a hamburger for less than 15$.

[NoRagrets → stale2002]

I am not a blanket supporter of rent control.

Just had to chime in re: food prices.