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> Or just a have a free market and abolish building codes. Building codes reduce transaction costs by avoiding having to inspect every single thing in a buildi
by alasdair_ 8y ago
> Or just a have a free market and abolish building codes.
Building codes reduce transaction costs by avoiding having to inspect every single thing in a building every single time the ownership changes.
Building codes massively reduce the load on the legal system that would otherwise be required from all the different people suing each other to determine fault when something inevitably breaks.
Building codes reduce death from things like fires because they make sure things like fire exits exist.
There are LOTS of countries with minimal building codes. Take "free market" Somalia for instance. Would you seriously switch with them?
- icebraining 8y agoCan we drop the tired "why don't you move to Somalia" trope? It's fallacious and it's disrespectful towards the people of Somalia.
- Konnstann 8y agoHow is it disrespectful? The majority of the people in Somalia probably share his opinion, and the ones that don't are profiting from the corruption there.
- icebraining 8y agoIt's disrespectful because there's no actual attempt to draw a serious comparison between the two cases; Somalia is used as a crude stereotype, and the reality of the people living there, and the real progress made in the last years is ignored. But hey, maybe I'm wrong: tell me, what specific drawbacks do you see in the building standards of Mogadishu or Hargeisa vis-a-vis Berlin?