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> therefore over half of Californians are heavily incentivized to keep the housing crisis going This is a too-frequent HN meme but it doesn't really work that
by jjav 5y ago
> therefore over half of Californians are heavily incentivized to keep the housing crisis going
This is a too-frequent HN meme but it doesn't really work that way. There is no special club of homeowners that have more say in what politicians do. Just one vote per person, same as non-homeowners.
And turns out homeowners don't spend time thinking about this, let alone scheming to somehow "keep the housing crisis going". A house is a place to live, that's all.
- MomoXenosaga 5y agoTechnically true but, and this is what makes democracy such a joke, poor people don't vote.
- imtringued 5y agoThey vote for parties that bribe them with cheap crap and screw them behind the scenes.
- imtringued 5y agoThat doesn't change that they are the source of the problem and that they get paid to cause the problem and be against its solutions. They also throw money into the throats of large corporations that own a huge amount of land.