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If we can't guarantee a minimum quality of life then we should enforce a maximum quality of life by limiting the spread. Tie the prosperity of the least product

If we can't guarantee a minimum quality of life then we should enforce a maximum quality of life by limiting the spread. Tie the prosperity of the least productive to that of the most. It is effectively illegal to be poor. The punishment is slavery or deaths of exposure and despair. Billionaires are a failure of policy and should be treated as pirates, raiding the homes of their customers and employees.

ctdonath 6y ago
It already is tied. Western capitalism recognizes that expanding customer base and increasing customer wealth is good for business (see Henry Ford’s aphorism about paying workers a wage suitable to buy his product). It is illegal to be poor because progressives impose laws making zoning, housing, food, jobs, etc too costly and punishing any who attempt to make lower wages livable. Billionaires are because they make accessible goods/services to greater percentages of limited populations. World abject poverty has plummeted from majority to near zero in my lifetime. That was capitalism improving productivity of all.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
  >It is illegal to be poor because progressives impose laws making zoning, housing, food, jobs, etc too costly and punishing any who attempt to make lower wages livable. Pretty sure you mean Nimbys, unless you're suggesting that building high density houses next to coal burning plants is perfectly fine and should never have been banned. There's a difference between zoning that increases prosperity, and zoning for selfish incentives that you would be wise to consider before casting zoning laws as progressive, when that's patently false[0]. >Billionaires are because they make accessible goods/services to greater percentages of limited populations. >World abject poverty has plummeted from majority to near zero in my lifetime. That was capitalism improving productivity of all. You imply causation without evidence. Billionaires use extractive and ethically bankrupt methods to undercut their competitors while skimming their plunder off margin between a fair price and their true cost. This is neither necessary, nor sustainable to ensure prosperity for all. This randian perspective is emotionally comfortable for the winners but tragically harmful to literally everyone else. 0. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/zoning-reform-is-not-leftism/ https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/zoning-reform-i...

ctdonath 6y ago

It already is tied. Western capitalism recognizes that expanding customer base and increasing customer wealth is good for business (see Henry Ford’s aphorism about paying workers a wage suitable to buy his product). It is illegal to be poor because progressives impose laws making zoning, housing, food, jobs, etc too costly and punishing any who attempt to make lower wages livable. Billionaires are because they make accessible goods/services to greater percentages of limited populations. World abject poverty has plummeted from majority to near zero in my lifetime. That was capitalism improving productivity of all.

Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
>It is illegal to be poor because progressives impose laws making zoning, housing, food, jobs, etc too costly and punishing any who attempt to make lower wages livable. Pretty sure you mean Nimbys, unless you're suggesting that building high density houses next to coal burning plants is perfectly fine and should never have been banned. There's a difference between zoning that increases prosperity, and zoning for selfish incentives that you would be wise to consider before casting zoning laws as progressive, when that's patently false[0]. >Billionaires are because they make accessible goods/services to greater percentages of limited populations. >World abject poverty has plummeted from majority to near zero in my lifetime. That was capitalism improving productivity of all. You imply causation without evidence. Billionaires use extractive and ethically bankrupt methods to undercut their competitors while skimming their plunder off margin between a fair price and their true cost. This is neither necessary, nor sustainable to ensure prosperity for all. This randian perspective is emotionally comfortable for the winners but tragically harmful to literally everyone else. 0. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/zoning-reform-is-not-leftism/ https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/zoning-reform-i...