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Why is someone being more efficient than alternative and making a profit a bad thing? Besides you are free to create a non profit housing company, if you truly believe in what you preach. And you will have an edge with prospective customers. Why advocate for one big monopoly unless you have a potentially malicious agenda?

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What exactly are they being efficient in? Are they raising the supply of housing while lowering prices on it to at-cost or below?

In a free market an entity has to be efficient to survive and especially make a profit. There are plenty of ways they can do it, creating more housing, better conditions, extras etc. and other things potential customers may value and choose them.

Care to reply to this: > Why advocate for one big monopoly unless you have a potentially malicious agenda?

And why you won’t create a non-profit company if you actually believe in what you preach?

> Care to reply to this: > Why advocate for one big monopoly unless you have a potentially malicious agenda?

No, because it premises that opposing the 'free market' for housing means I have a malicious agenda. If that is your supposition, I won't be engaging.

While I am confident prospective communist leaders are malicious, and want more easy power/wealth for themselves, without caring about the damage to everyone else, I apologize for trying to compare you to them this early in the conversation.

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