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LOL. Isn't America the land of the free? Free market, land of opportunity, options galore? Just remove enforced single family zoning for 70%+ of your built up

by oblio 2y ago

LOL. Isn't America the land of the free? Free market, land of opportunity, options galore? Just remove enforced single family zoning for 70%+ of your built up areas and let the free market decide, right? In most of the US right now you can decide to: 1. live in a single family home 2. live in a single family home 3. live in a single family home ... 98. live in a single family home 99. rent/buy a condo (if there are any in the area and you can afford it, because those areas are super expensive) 100. rent/buy a townhouse (if there are any in the area and you can afford it, because those areas are super expensive)

pchristensen 2y ago
Lol I always say I'm fine with people advocating for zoning restrictions, as long as they also acknowledge that land use planning is the most communist and regulated industry in America, in a way that would make the healthcare industry blush.
- EliRivers 2y ago
  Land use planning is the most communist? Doesn't really seem to be run under priciples of common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange. How would one even have common ownership of land use planning? As for making the healthcare industry blush; the healthcare industry in the US is brutally uncommunist. Did you really mean communist? If so, in what way is land planning in the US operated under principles of common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange.
  - oblio 2y ago
    I think he meant communist in the everyday perception, more like authoritarian (so not communist in the dictionary sense). Super regulated, super indoctrinated, no freedom, basically.
    - pchristensen 2y ago
      Exactly.
      - EliRivers 2y ago
        So if it's not actually communist, but just authoritarian, what's the problem? And where's the authoritarianism with healthcare? In healthcare in the US, you can just go out and buy pretty much any legal healthcare you like - surely that's not at all authoritarian.

by oblio 2y ago

pchristensen 2y ago

Lol I always say I'm fine with people advocating for zoning restrictions, as long as they also acknowledge that land use planning is the most communist and regulated industry in America, in a way that would make the healthcare industry blush.

EliRivers 2y ago
Land use planning is the most communist? Doesn't really seem to be run under priciples of common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange. How would one even have common ownership of land use planning? As for making the healthcare industry blush; the healthcare industry in the US is brutally uncommunist. Did you really mean communist? If so, in what way is land planning in the US operated under principles of common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange.
- oblio 2y ago
  I think he meant communist in the everyday perception, more like authoritarian (so not communist in the dictionary sense). Super regulated, super indoctrinated, no freedom, basically.
  - pchristensen 2y ago
    Exactly.
    - EliRivers 2y ago
      So if it's not actually communist, but just authoritarian, what's the problem? And where's the authoritarianism with healthcare? In healthcare in the US, you can just go out and buy pretty much any legal healthcare you like - surely that's not at all authoritarian.