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But now we're relying on Microsoft to solve our problems. How is that any better?

• cronix 8y ago
  Something might actually get done
  • sdinsn 8y ago
    > might Exactly. Why put our eggs in MSFT's basket?
• ralusek 8y ago
  Because nobody is being forced to fund it, as is the case with the state. And the state would staff the administration of the new construction with pensioned state bureaucrats, whose pensions are already bankrupting California. Unfunded state liabilities from pensions are somewhere between 333 billion and 1 trillion, depending on who you ask. And then once constructed, there would be forces wholly removed from the natural demands of the population, as represented immediately by the encompassing markets, determining how the housing is to evolve over time. People should be much more reserved than they are in terms of handing things over to the state, there is much to be lost.
  • sdinsn 8y ago
    > whose pensions are already bankrupting California That is not true. California has a budget surplus right now...