I would like to point out for people talking about "rent-seeking" that labor unions, under the classical econ definition, are one of the biggest examples of "rent-seeking" entities, and wages being higher than their "efficient" level is defined as "rent"
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Compare the famous quote from the 50s from the President of the UAW denying that "consumers" were a meaningful interest group at all ("Who is a consumer? Show me a consumer")
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Anyway, this is the extreme irony of someone like Matt Stoller, whose overwhelming obsession is with "monopolies" and "competition" (as neoliberal a concern as it gets) presenting himself as a "leftist"
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