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An excerpt from the article:

Ms. Jones has been scouring the West Los Angeles rental market to find a house that the family could rent for the next eight months, or longer. On Friday morning, she noticed something disturbing on the rents of at least three of the properties she had been tracking: 15 to 20 percent increases overnight.

The sudden surge in rental costs took Ms. Jones by surprise, but aligned with what she has noticed since wildfires started to tear through the Los Angeles area on Tuesday. Ms. Jones was touring a rental house in Beverly Hills with her client on Thursday when the listing agent raised the monthly cost by $3,000 — on the spot. Agents and landlords are aware that some displaced Angelenos might be willing to pay given the circumstance.

“People are so panicked and desperate to get into a house right now that they’re just throwing money into the wind,” Ms. Jones said. “People taking advantage of this. It’s horrendous.”

And now, totally unrelated to this, the definition of "parasitism":

Association between two different organisms wherein one benefits at the expense of the other.

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I'm a little horrified that a 15-20% hike is $3000.

That's uh, well, even before the price hike that makes me feel very Luigi....

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I love that Luigi is a verb now.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago
[-] Welt@lazysoci.al 0 points 3 months ago

*adverb - "Luigi" is modifying the verb "feel", not a noun

[-] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's not modifying "feel," it's the object of "feel." It functions in that capacity as an adjective. You could make it an adverb by changing it to "makes me Luigily feel."

In "I would happily feel happy," happily is an adverb and happy is an adjective, for example.

[-] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 2 points 3 months ago

this is what lemmy was made for

[-] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

The people who are looking for a rental in this article and who lost their Pacific Palisades home make an order of magnitude more money than you or I would ever expect to make

[-] PineRune@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The rich are surprised because now -they- are the ones being taken advantage of.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

What's this? The consequences of my lifestyle choices and actions??? But I was assured the lepards wouldn't eat MY face!!! I'm one of the lepards!!!

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The indignity of living 6-figure paycheck to 6-figure paycheck.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Well demand did go up.

Bunch of jackasses, I hope the landbastards' houses burn down and none of their family or pets are harmed and their houses are the only ones destroyed in the neighborhood.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How about we just hope the pets can be rehomed because they didn't ask for asshole owners and don't deserve to be punished.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Here's the thing though.....being an asshole doesn't affect pets. Pets have no concepts of rent, or money, or social class. Hell, even HITLER had a cat and a dog. I'm sure that dog loved hitler. And you can't blame the dog. The dog has no idea that the person he lives with signed paperwork to establish concentration camps.

The dog just knows he comes home, gives him treats, and then he, the dog, and ava braun all lay down by the fireplace, and watch netflix.

And so these dogs today, they're just the same. Living with assholes, and clueless. Just as it always has been.

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