New York City Council Votes to End Broker Fees Squeezing Renters

Based. Why the fuck do you deserve $10,000 for unlocking the door to an apartment I found myself?

Same thing could said of real estate agents

While we’re on the subject of rent seeking industries we should crush: car dealerships.

Car dealerships provide inventory control and local storage. For decades this was a very valuable service for both the automakers and car buyers.

They're less necessary now... as long as you're willing to wait a few weeks for your be car to arrive. Most people aren't, or can't.

You can have your cake and eat it: Tesla sells cars online, both new built/shipped to spec and unclaimed/used inventory available immediately.

https://www.tesla.com/inventory/used/my?arrangeby=plh

> The Tesla CEO is busy undermining democracy in the US by lying thousands of times on Twitter.

That is a non sequitur. Streamlined car-buying has nothing to do with Twitter.

Twitter is owned by the CEO of Tesla who has gone insane and has turned Twitter into his own little yellow-journalism platform that he has flooded with liars and used to amplify lies.

I understand that EM is the link between Twitter and Tesla. However, the topic of this thread is middlemen which are no longer necessary. No matter what EM does with Twitter, it has no bearing on the merits of direct-to-consumer car sales, of which Tesla is only one example.