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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it were so simple to “disrupt” real estate it would have been done by now. There are reasons Redfin hasn’t become the Amazon of real estate, shuttering all its mom & pop competitors. DH and I are both lawyers and we still use realtors. [/quote]

Nonsense.  Cartels are powerful and corrupt our politicians.

Pharmacists could be replaced by low cost robots now at this point, yet the only reason we continue to need pharmacists is because the law in many places says there must be a human on staff?  Why do we need them?  Only because lobbyists make politicians write the law stating that a human pharmacist must be present.  Pharmacists themselves don't have any special skills that is better than automated dispensing robots. In fact, robots make far less mistakes and have already been shown for going on almost 2 decades now that they're capable of dispensing out billions of doses effectively.  Many hospitals and urban areas already use pill dispensing robots, yet pharmacists hang around because of the law.

Same for car salesmen.  Why do we have to pay them at all?  Why can't we just buy from the company like Tesla?  Because of corruption.  The car sales lobby tries to prohibit consumers from buying cars from Tesla, because they want to keep their inefficient and dumb model in place so that consumers have to get gouged unnecessarily with a needless third party between purchasing their car and the manufacturer.  The only reason we have to buy cars from dealers is because it is the law for many places.

Same for RE.  95% of it can be automated.  Virtually 99.99999% of all other countries in the world charge vastly lower fee for RE transactions than the US.  The Department of Justice wouldn't be wasting their time if they didn't think it stunk.  [/quote]

This issue is in so many fields.  Why do American physicians make so much more money than their counterparts abroad?  Was the 30 minute appointment my child had with a specialist REALLY worth $1400?  Why does it cost $20 to get stitches in almost any country in the world and $700 in an American ER (not even done by a physician!)?

This is corruption- our country has a corruption problem.[/quote]

Corruption? How so? I want you to explain the corruption.[/quote]

When cartels are allowed to price gouge by politicians whom they have bought and paid for- that is the corruption part.  We know lobbyists for every powerful special interest group basically write our legislation.  This is just corruption brought to by citizens United and a lack of campaign finance law.[/quote]

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