Cracking down hard on rent seeking parasites would go a long way to reduce costs in healthcare, housing, and the automotive industry.
The problem is centralization of wealth, absurd expectations on the returns of capital, and the coupled wage theft that enables those returns, popularized by an entire generation of Welch worshippers, and skewed expectations created by export of production, and increasing reliance on safe-harbor third world labor prices.
It's all way more interconnected than it looks.
According to Dirk Löhr the biggest driver of wealth inequality is just good old real estate and it's mostly the land that appreciated in value. Chasing land rents (I mean speculation on rising land values, not renting out apartments as a landlord) feels wholly unproductive.
1. You need to be a citizen in order to buy realestate.
No more wealthy guys buying our land with an email. No more homes siting empty, or filled with illegial.
2. Wealthy guys can only buy two, or three at most.
3. Outlaw corporate speculation in realestate, like Blackstone.
I feel #1 is something that should have been outlawed years ago.
You make healthcare cheaper, but need to concurrently give the millions of people who depend on this overcomplicated system a different path...
A small minority of office jobs are “white collar” in the traditional sense