It only increases the cost of living in an unregulated market where shops and landlords are able to charge more for no other reason than the fact that they can. If we fight for fair pricing of goods and housing the same way we fight for fair pay, then we can keep them in balance as well.
Enough collective effort is already being put forward to keep everyone - in the US at least - fed, clothed, and housed; it’s only the uneven distribution of the goods and pay that prevents that effort from raising the quality of life of the lower classes.
We can force these things to be regulated, even under capitalism; the intended way of doing it - even when the US was founded - has always been to protest and disrupt the status quo until those on power are forced to meet your demands.
It only increases the cost of living in an unregulated market where shops and landlords are able to charge more for no other reason than the fact that they can. If we fight for fair pricing of goods and housing the same way we fight for fair pay, then we can keep them in balance as well.
Enough collective effort is already being put forward to keep everyone - in the US at least - fed, clothed, and housed; it’s only the uneven distribution of the goods and pay that prevents that effort from raising the quality of life of the lower classes.
We can force these things to be regulated, even under capitalism; the intended way of doing it - even when the US was founded - has always been to protest and disrupt the status quo until those on power are forced to meet your demands.