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Ban renting. You buy a house to live in it. If you don't want to live in it then sell it. Renting houses is literally rent-seeking. Additionally, remove all zo
by xdennis 4y ago
Ban renting. You buy a house to live in it. If you don't want to live in it then sell it. Renting houses is literally rent-seeking.
Additionally, remove all zoning laws. The free market will handle zoning.
In the West in the 20th century governments implemented some common sense policies to keep socialism at bay. Countries that didn't, like Russia, were engulfed by socialists.
Look at how many young people openly admit to being communists. If this rent-seeking is sustained we'll eventually get the Khmer Rouge.
- GordonS 4y ago> Additionally, remove all zoning laws. The free market will handle zoning. Woah there, let's not throw the baby out with the bath water! Zoning laws in the US seem very broken, but they are much more sensible in much of the world. A free-for-all seems like a bad idea - would you really want to live next door to a knackers yard, an abattoir, a tannery, a coal power plant, a chemical plant, a fish processing factory etc, a rubbish dump, a night club?
- CogitoCogito 4y ago> would you really want to live next door to a knackers yard, an abattoir, a tannery, a coal power plant, a chemical plant, a fish processing factory etc, a rubbish dump, a night club? I'm not sure about all of that, but I think having bars, restaurants, stores, etc. intermingled within short walking distance of houses in suburbs would certainly be great.
- GordonS 4y agoMe too, and that's often how things work in countries other than the US - rationale zoning laws, not no zoning laws.