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HN logic: Berlin rent cap => market always wins, let the market rule Mining bitcoin => let's regulate

• jokethrowaway 6y ago
  I wouldn't say HN is generally libertarian leaning (calls for regulation of everything are quite common among well educated techies) - rent caps are probably such an authoritarian and foreign concept that even HN is rebelling to it. As a libertarian (pro free market, pro private property for everything), I'm in favour of removing rent caps. On pollution, that's a bit harder. The problem is that the environment is a resource shared by everyone and everyone should privately own a little part of it. Polluting is damaging everyone's stake in the environment and the individuals living in it should have a right to compensation. I think the best model should be leaving it up to the communities to establish what the limits are in each community. Some can have no limits, some will have higher limits. It will be a tradeoff between cheaper cost of living / profitability, after all. Then we would see places with higher or lower limits according to what people wish and need.