YOUR CITY IS NOT FULL. HOUSING PRICES ARE A POLICY FAILURE OF YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Every American should be forced to read these words every single day like the Cole Protocol.
greensnacks · 36-40, F
BlueVeins · 26-30
@greensnacks Honestly, it's not just the corporations, not even primarily them really. In a sane world, corporations are bound by supply & demand like everyone else. Local governments artificially limit the supply of housing through zoning laws & unending regulatory barriers, and that makes the price go way up. It's basically just a multi-trillion dollar mass-theft on the part of the homeowners.
being full is not always just a matter of housing or housing costs
sometimes topographically-limited transit infrastructure is an issue as well (like geographic ares criss-crossed by multiple rivers, inhibiting easy expansion of roads or rail without multiple long expensive bridges or tunnels)
and aside from just the cost of housing, there is the forest cleared and/or marsh filled in to build new everything (housing, commerce, transit, etc.), or the fact that perhaps the land that everyone wants to move to is simultaneously sinking below sea level while the sea level itself is also rising in tandem
and it's not just policy failure at the local level, it is a cascade of policy failures at every level of government, up to and including national government, compounded by buying into this whole illusion of "nations" on a single planet to begin with
being full also can just simply consist of running out of effing freshwater (and then, instead of saying "you know, maybe we should cap how many people can move to a frickin desert" we have brainstorms like desalinating seawater, which has negative envirpnmental impacts in multiple directions, at the intake level, the brine waste level, the voracious energy demand and sourcing level, and creates a false sense of a solution in lieu of conservation, and ramps up Titanic-esque hubris of conquering nature), all while all the additional people moving to a desert increase the energy demand for things like air-conditioning, which has an outsized carbon footprint compared to temperate regions, yet also accelerates the climate change affecting regions beyond the desert too ... there is no common sense, only "liberty"
it is a symptom of capitalism (nevermind nationwide oligarchy, et al.)
it is a symptom of federalism (look at the 50 different shades of pandemic response conundrum, cos "states' rights")
it is a symptom of thinking unfettered procreation is a fundamental individual right and that overpopulation is a fallacy in the apex predator species, while we readily recognize it as a reality in other species (cherry-picking when to apply logic to fit a predetermined narrative / outcome / absence of sensible limits on freedumb)
it is a symptom of whims overriding rationality or logic to the point that literally anything you can conceive of, no matter how absurd, should be baked into absolute "freedom" (like the entitlement of demanding eminent domain for a high speed rail line when buses are actually capable of having their routes changed as tranist needs change, I-5 already exists, and rail cannot just be picked up and rerouted ... when those making the demand are oblivious to the fact that they are not the only stakeholders who matter)
and then if AI does in fact put tons of people out of work, then what? who funds UBI and housing and so forth when there are no incomes to tax? and will there then be procreation limits when there is no work for anyone to obtain income via?
knee-jerk oversimplification of any and every issue is not a solution to anything, it's not even a convincing facsimile of a solution, not even a seed of one
sometimes topographically-limited transit infrastructure is an issue as well (like geographic ares criss-crossed by multiple rivers, inhibiting easy expansion of roads or rail without multiple long expensive bridges or tunnels)
and aside from just the cost of housing, there is the forest cleared and/or marsh filled in to build new everything (housing, commerce, transit, etc.), or the fact that perhaps the land that everyone wants to move to is simultaneously sinking below sea level while the sea level itself is also rising in tandem
and it's not just policy failure at the local level, it is a cascade of policy failures at every level of government, up to and including national government, compounded by buying into this whole illusion of "nations" on a single planet to begin with
being full also can just simply consist of running out of effing freshwater (and then, instead of saying "you know, maybe we should cap how many people can move to a frickin desert" we have brainstorms like desalinating seawater, which has negative envirpnmental impacts in multiple directions, at the intake level, the brine waste level, the voracious energy demand and sourcing level, and creates a false sense of a solution in lieu of conservation, and ramps up Titanic-esque hubris of conquering nature), all while all the additional people moving to a desert increase the energy demand for things like air-conditioning, which has an outsized carbon footprint compared to temperate regions, yet also accelerates the climate change affecting regions beyond the desert too ... there is no common sense, only "liberty"
it is a symptom of capitalism (nevermind nationwide oligarchy, et al.)
it is a symptom of federalism (look at the 50 different shades of pandemic response conundrum, cos "states' rights")
it is a symptom of thinking unfettered procreation is a fundamental individual right and that overpopulation is a fallacy in the apex predator species, while we readily recognize it as a reality in other species (cherry-picking when to apply logic to fit a predetermined narrative / outcome / absence of sensible limits on freedumb)
it is a symptom of whims overriding rationality or logic to the point that literally anything you can conceive of, no matter how absurd, should be baked into absolute "freedom" (like the entitlement of demanding eminent domain for a high speed rail line when buses are actually capable of having their routes changed as tranist needs change, I-5 already exists, and rail cannot just be picked up and rerouted ... when those making the demand are oblivious to the fact that they are not the only stakeholders who matter)
and then if AI does in fact put tons of people out of work, then what? who funds UBI and housing and so forth when there are no incomes to tax? and will there then be procreation limits when there is no work for anyone to obtain income via?
knee-jerk oversimplification of any and every issue is not a solution to anything, it's not even a convincing facsimile of a solution, not even a seed of one