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How is this weird, whoever has the power in a transaction is able to make their demands. Goes for anything that involves an exchange. Labour, housing, goods. This isn't insightful.
It's sarcasm.
I don't think that really addresses the comment you're responding to
The post is with a sarcastic tone. It is not actually saying that this is surprising or weird.
Yes, and I guess I took the post you responded to be aware of that, whilst expressing frustration with the initial post regardless - presumably because it phrased this as an action of class warfare rather than a feature common to all value-for-money exchanges where demand exceeds supply...
I'd say having the supply when demand exceeds supply in value-for-money exchanges implies a class hierarchy in and of itself.
Nah, don't think that's class in general tbh, but in the context of land ownership there is a pretty strong history of association between the two