Sticker shock, a feeling as old as commerce itself, is no longer just an irksome, unexpectedly high bill. In the era of social media, overpaying for dinner is an invitation for anyone and everyone to publicly shake their fist over the health of the global economy.
This isnt true. Covid caused a sharp drop. Before that the housing crash in 2008 did as well.
The problem is that rent only went down on cataclysm. Otherwise, it just goes up.
The further problem is that it likely wont go down much on cataclysm anymore, as investment firms snap up cheap housing and use third parties algorithms to do rent price fixing.