Even the businesses that aren't trying to enshittify everything are being forced to because rent and property taxes keep increasing, because property values keep increasing, because the increasingly small number of people and businesses who can afford to buy property are deliberately engaged in international price manipulation schemes to maximize the amount of wealth they can leech out of everyone else while continuing to buy more property to accelerate that leeching AND because of that rapidly accrued wealth they are able to purchase greater and greater ownership of literally everything while getting handcrafted legislation and judgements that say they can do that even if they just fired thousands of people.

The only solution is to limit the amount of property that can be owned by any person, and make it so corporations/businesses cannot own property and only actual living human beings can own it although they can share ownership of property but it will still count against their total amount they can own. It's the only way to bring prices back down because think about it: we're paying for every other person's increased cost of living with every single transaction, every person in the chain of getting a product into your hands requires more money now for housing costs and that drives up their required wages which forces businesses to pay them more in order to have any staff at all but businesses aren't going to just eat that cost and they pass it on to their customers, whether that's consumers or other businesses. As you can imagine that creates a vicious cycle of increasing costs.

Say the farmer has to pay more in taxes now simply because home prices have gone up, through no fault of their own, the rates have stuck but the values have changed. They now have to charge more for their crop, let's say it's potatoes to make the rest of the example easy to follow, and now everyone who buys their potatoes needs to pay more for the same potatoes because the farmer has to pay more their farm. So let's say it's Frito-Lay buying the potatoes for crisps, and this same price increase is happening everywhere so they don't have a choice but to accept it, they now have to pay more for the potatoes right? But they're going to raise their prices to compensate for it, or they're going to fire some people to save the costs if they can. Either way, if they raise their prices now everyone is paying more the crisps including the retailers who stock them, if they fire people those people are now unemployed and cost everyone more to take care of.

Meanwhile the people working at Frito-Lay are also paying more for housing so they all need more money too, and so do the delivery drivers, and the store operators and employees, and the people who work in the energy sector providing fuel for the delivery trucks and electricity for the store, and the people who come in and shop at the store and all the businesses they work at too, in this big web of connected costs which has me literally screaming at the world with this obvious solution because I can't take it anymore, we need to put a limit on property ownership, period. It doesn't have to be ridiculously small, we can make it reasonable so farmers can have plenty of land and you can still own a few houses, but we have to end the practice of making real estate an investment vehicle for parasitic profiteering.