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More people like you, increasing capacity, instead of price, are the solution. Be proud. You are the solution to high prices. I would call that 1031 exchange
by HappyFunGuy 10y ago
More people like you, increasing capacity, instead of price, are the solution. Be proud. You are the solution to high prices. I would call that 1031 exchange an unfair benefit to the already over benefitted by capital gains tax being half of income tax class though.
The world needs more houses with more people in them. That requires lower house prices, or richer people. I do not like the attitude home owners have that their future must be paid for by the pain of others not being able to afford homes. And that the profit they make on that low production asset subsidises their leisure lifestyle. Building is better than speculating, for speculating is 1 layer removed from production.
- gumby 10y ago> The world needs more houses with more people in them. Really? Is it impossible to have a fun and healthy society without a rising population? That sounds like a pyramid scheme.
- HappyFunGuy 10y agoDo you plan to colonize the stars, or wait for this sun to die out?
- angstrom 10y agoWe'll lose fewer people if we colonize the planets.
- ZenoArrow 10y agoWe're a long way from being able to do so in a population-saving way. Which planets and moons in our solar system could support human life? Apart from the Earth, the answer is none. We may be able to build small colonies on Mars and/or Europa but the difficulty in building sizeable colonies in/on these places would be huge (cost of transport, cost of base building and maintenance, differences in gravity, decreased sunlight, transforming local resources into forms we can more easily use, etc...), the effort would be much better spent securing the life-support mechanisms of our own planet.
- coldtea 10y agoDo you base your economic decisions on what will happen in 3-4 billion years?
- HappyFunGuy 10y agoI choose the rights of other humans to live over your aesthetic preference.
- coldtea 10y agoVery noble, but ever thought that thinking in terms of billion years is not really productive, and in fact can be counter-productive and destructive? What with "thousand year" projects turning dictatorial and even "hundred year plans" looking obsolete and becoming laughing stock a few decades after they were devised. I don't see how one can purport to be the judge on how future generations should live for them, and what the end goal should be millions of years ahead. Besides, the Sun's death is a really minor issue. It's avoiding the heat death of the universe that will take really good planning...
- x3n0ph3n3 10y agoI don't think he's advocating indefinite growth as much as observing that there are fewer houses than people/families whom want a house. We don't have enough housing to meet the demands of the current population. Despite that, many projections of human population expect a peak this century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth#World_population_in_2050 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...