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"It's a pity that they don't teach journalists how to think" It's a pity that you can't humbly disagree with someone over a differing opinion, rather than fram

"It's a pity that they don't teach journalists how to think" It's a pity that you can't humbly disagree with someone over a differing opinion, rather than framing them as ignorant and unaware of some basic truth that you're privy to. It's not just off-putting, but it's also inaccurate. Your feeling on "rent-seeking" and zoning policy are hardly universal, and there are many scholars that have written alternative views on the subject.

davidf18 10y ago
> "Your feeling on "rent-seeking" and zoning policy are hardly universal, and there are many scholars that have written alternative views on the subject." Please cite your sources. The rent-seeking is one of 3 forms of microeconomic market inefficiencies (the others are [negative] externalities and information asymmetry). Prices rise because of scarcity. Zoning density restrictions causes scarcity. "rent-seeking" is use of politics or other means to create a market inefficiency that helps a special interest gain increased wealth, not through wealth creation. Zoning density restriction are from politics. There is universal understanding that zoning density restrictions (which is using politics to create scarcity) create higher housing costs. I don't know anyone who states that zoning density restrictions do not cause higher housing costs. So, please cite your source.
surge 10y ago
Journalists are glorified communications majors, the degree you go for when sports medicine/therapy doesn't interest you as much...they aren't exactly held to high intellectual standards, at least, not anymore. Think about the technical inaccuracies you see in articles concerning subject matter you're an expert in, or an event you were witness to. That's par for the course in most articles, few journalists bother to understand what it is they're writing about, or probably don't have time to. Then go into how journalism is ratings driven and going through huge cutbacks, and you have standards where it's more important an article be provocative and feed into their readership's confirmation bias than make people think or propose solutions or only work with hard facts. It's more provocative to blame white technocrats than government or landowners for not wanting an population density to go up because they like their views or impact the environment or it would devalue their property. Of course, my opinion is Silicon Valley should just not be there. Anywhere with a high barrier to entry of cost of living at that level will be discriminatory, also, what good is making that much money if most of it getting sunk into cost of basic living that doesn't improve your quality of life or meet the life style of someone making half as much somewhere else has and creates issues for those that lived there that don't work in tech. Tech needs to spread out, so there is space for others. You would think of all industries, physical proximity would be less of a factor.
digler999 10y ago
> Your feeling that wasn't a feeling. it is a fact that rent seeking is a market inefficiency. > there are many scholars that have written alternative views on the subject https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority

davidf18 10y ago

> "Your feeling on "rent-seeking" and zoning policy are hardly universal, and there are many scholars that have written alternative views on the subject." Please cite your sources. The rent-seeking is one of 3 forms of microeconomic market inefficiencies (the others are [negative] externalities and information asymmetry). Prices rise because of scarcity. Zoning density restrictions causes scarcity. "rent-seeking" is use of politics or other means to create a market inefficiency that helps a special interest gain increased wealth, not through wealth creation. Zoning density restriction are from politics. There is universal understanding that zoning density restrictions (which is using politics to create scarcity) create higher housing costs. I don't know anyone who states that zoning density restrictions do not cause higher housing costs. So, please cite your source.

surge 10y ago

Journalists are glorified communications majors, the degree you go for when sports medicine/therapy doesn't interest you as much...they aren't exactly held to high intellectual standards, at least, not anymore. Think about the technical inaccuracies you see in articles concerning subject matter you're an expert in, or an event you were witness to. That's par for the course in most articles, few journalists bother to understand what it is they're writing about, or probably don't have time to. Then go into how journalism is ratings driven and going through huge cutbacks, and you have standards where it's more important an article be provocative and feed into their readership's confirmation bias than make people think or propose solutions or only work with hard facts. It's more provocative to blame white technocrats than government or landowners for not wanting an population density to go up because they like their views or impact the environment or it would devalue their property. Of course, my opinion is Silicon Valley should just not be there. Anywhere with a high barrier to entry of cost of living at that level will be discriminatory, also, what good is making that much money if most of it getting sunk into cost of basic living that doesn't improve your quality of life or meet the life style of someone making half as much somewhere else has and creates issues for those that lived there that don't work in tech. Tech needs to spread out, so there is space for others. You would think of all industries, physical proximity would be less of a factor.

digler999 10y ago

> Your feeling that wasn't a feeling. it is a fact that rent seeking is a market inefficiency. > there are many scholars that have written alternative views on the subject https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority