Overnight News: Why would I pay the #NAR to threaten my livelihood?

I’m in the process of extricating myself from the National Association of Realtors. Every agent should be asking the question in the headline, but my reason is more comprehensive: I know who speech codes are for. I am very lucky to live in a free country – for now – but people who think like I do are routinely jailed and killed all over the world, nearer in space and time every day.

Here’s what’s worse: The NAR has now turned the lazy bulk of its membership into Stasi spies committed to destroying the productive agents – especially the innovators.

But here’s what’s better: The NAR has turned on its membership, declaring that it will spy on them and then destroy their careers. Why is that better? Because, as with NASCAR and public school teachers, the NAR’s true loyalties are now at least partially unmasked. Whatever side they are on, it ain’t yours. Respond accordingly.

As for me, depending on how things work out and how angry I get about it, I may devote some time to interesting legal issues:

• Is the NAR a labor union, subject to labor union regulation?
• Is the NAR bound by right-to-work laws in Arizona? Must I subsidize ideas I abhor?
• Is the NAR a de facto monopoly, bound by the anti-trust laws?
• Is the higher degree of failure for black and hispanic real estate agents caused by the NAR?

The answer the last question is a resounding yes. Occupational licensing laws – originated by the NAR – were devised to exclude black competition. The real estate licensing laws still work that way, imposing very high financial and intellectual capital demands on new entrants – for a low-capital type of small business often run by very dim bulbs. This would be the “systemic” racism serious people would address. You can’t make it to the top if the big-shots keep sweeping you off the first step.

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