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>I've looked through the Constitution and the entirety of US laws and I simply can't find where people have the "right" to afford to eat nutritious food instead
by ryeights 4y ago
>I've looked through the Constitution and the entirety of US laws and I simply can't find where people have the "right" to afford to eat nutritious food instead of gruel and instant ramen. I've looked and looked, and can't find this anywhere. Can anybody explain to me why they feel this is a right?
Not very insightful, yeah? Perhaps it would be good for things to be a certain way in our country without literally enshrining them in our Constitution. Cities are the economic backbones of modern nations, so it’s probably good for young people to be able to afford to live and work there.
- steponlego 4y agoPeople don't want tenaments popping up in their nice single family neighborhoods. Why not create one of those magical 15 minute walkable cities from scratch? A brand new, carless EXTREME density city? If it's such a dream come true, people will be sure to move in. Right? It seems pretty obvious that the folks who own property in cities which exist now don't want ultra-dense housing in their nice quiet neighborhoods, so let's put the WEF dream city concept to the test and create one from scratch.
- ryeights 4y ago“Just build an entirely new city from scratch bro. How hard can it be” Network effects is the answer. Anyway, not sure what this would prove. There is clearly enormous demand for existing cities to be densified, as demonstrated by our densest, most walkable cities (NYC, SF, etc) having by far the highest rents and property values in the country, as well as the greatest economic outputs. If you’re a free market economist, you should view it as a massive failure that regulatory capture and vested interests are able to prevent willing property sellers and developers from making this a reality.
- steponlego 4y agoI’m not a free market economist, luckily.