• LoamImprovement@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This means that real estate developers are saying “I can’t sell this house for $250K but I can sell it for $300K and give you a 1Kg ingot worth $50K” to get around the overvaluing of the house, because people won’t buy the house at the prices Chinese government insists they should be sold.

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      1 year ago

      so communism is when unbearable housing markets are government mandated instead. What a world to live in.

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        Well, if we’re being honest, it’s capitalism with communism branding. Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to buy and sell the house in the first place.

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        How so? This looks like unscrupulous businesses finding loopholes in the regulations and the government being slow to close them. Same thing happens in the west.