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If you can accept technology changes over time (goodbye horse and carriage), and that society changes over time (hello LGBTQI rights), why is it unreasonable to
by jackorange 5y ago
If you can accept technology changes over time (goodbye horse and carriage), and that society changes over time (hello LGBTQI rights), why is it unreasonable to accept the price you pay for goods will change? Naturally, its a given that's not the only change. The materials to build have changed, transporting them has changed, wages have changed. Prices are not going to be the same.
- whimsicalism 5y agoThese are policy decisions being made that make it so it is harder to purchase housing near my job or where I grew up, as well as being net detrimental to economic growth (and the growth of wages and output which lowers prices).
- UncleMeat 5y agoThis is backwards. If society gets more expensive because we no longer oppress certain groups in the same ways, then it should have been the case that people from these groups were the ones getting cheap housing in the past since they were “buying” a shitty social experience. But that’s not the case. It was straight white families who got cheap housing while at the same time holding minorities back.
- jackorange 5y agoI presented a broad example that society is changing. I did not associate a variation in pricing due to the oppression or lack thereof of certain groups.
- lthornberry 5y agoHousing has become significantly more expensive relative to wages, which is where the problem lies.