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many homeless people would disagree - food is more important

• FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  We're not talking about some poor African country suffering form famine. Food affordability is not as big of an issue in the west compared to the cost of housing. We have mastered agriculture, supply chain and economies of scale to have cheap mas produced food that can keep even the poor from starving(and even affording them enough calories to get fat if they wish), but we did the exact opposite for housing so we can monetize it. By design, western housing doesn't have the same political and market dynamics that drive cheap food to also drive cheap houses.
  • zabzonk 3y ago
    the first thing you need is food. i can't understand what you are talking about here - food is not free.
    • 0x000xca0xfe 3y ago
      Food is much, much cheaper than housing. If push comes to shove, you can easily survive on <$50/month. You simply cannot scale back on housing as easy as that.
    • FirmwareBurner 3y ago
      Yes, food is more important for survival, but food is also much more abundant and much cheaper than housing, making it less of a concern. (in the west)