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Unless you provide reasoning this comes across as needlessly snide.

• lupire 4y ago
  The parent poster, a 99.99%ile brilliant engineer (seriously) and entrepreneur has a long history of posting libertarians talking points on any vaguely related topic.
  • imtyler 4y ago
    I'm not sure what you're trying to assert? I'm not aware of a ile scale of brilliance. I also don't know why a history or libertarianism is relevant? I just think that the comment wasn't constructive.
  • WalterBright 4y ago
    > libertarians talking points Frankly, I've haven't read much of any libertarian literature, nor touchstones like Ayn Rand. My opinions come simply from reading lots of history and economic books. A seminal experience for me was touring East Berlin in 1969. The contrast with West Berlin was stark.
• WalterBright 4y ago
  Here's one for you. It takes 10 government funded housing units to get one homeless person into housing. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1051137715300474 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10511... It's hard to conclude that this is an effective program. Some discussion of this in the WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/housing-first-foments-homelessness-in-california-gavin-newsom-government-spending-camp-unsheltered-drug-treatment-psychiatric-care-11668785369 https://www.wsj.com/articles/housing-first-foments-homelessn... A consistent reason why left wing programs fail is they do not take supply&demand into consideration.