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I get that it's satire but it makes a good point. It is the government's problem that renting out property is financially incentivized. We can't expect any significant number of landlords to start charging below market rent. Especially because many of those landlords are public corporations who must act in the interest of their shareholders, directly against the interests of their tenants. This is the government's problem to regulate and in absence of the regulation effort is better spent targeting government than individual landlords/corporations imo. Ya the government won't do anything, they are the landlords after all, but at least there's a path to changing the financial incentive through government.