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And - in all fairness - enriching yourself only is the side-effect, the major other output being "there now is a (more) desirable place". People want to live a
by DocTomoe 4y ago
And - in all fairness - enriching yourself only is the side-effect, the major other output being "there now is a (more) desirable place".
People want to live at increasingly more desirable places, and that is true even more so for people who cannot afford to: If such desirability was no object in their quest, Detroit would be full of people, the Bay Area wouldn't have so many issues with housing, and housing prices would be a non-issue.
If the alternative is "everywhere sucks equally", which is the likely outcome of a national-level central planning, I doubt you will find many takers.
- lmm 4y agoI live somewhere with national-level planning rules and it's brilliant (indeed it's the most populous metropolitan area in the world, and I don't think that's coincidence).
- DocTomoe 4y agoWithout going too deep in Japanese real estate planning laws, iirc most I am aware of are more a "national guideline" and are frequently overridden by prefectures and cities. That's hardly on the level of actual national-planning, communist-style 5-year-plans.