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So libs are going to follow Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias again; they're really making a serious marketing play for "abundance." Why can't we have our cake and e
by pessimizer 2y ago
So libs are going to follow Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias again; they're really making a serious marketing play for "abundance." Why can't we have our cake and eat it too? Why not make the poor richer and the rich richer? Why can't we have a billion immigrants and raise wages?
Meanwhile, they only support policy that makes the rich richer, an endless supply of weak immigrant labor doing gig work, and that assigns guardianship of the cake to their foundations. But now, they've blamed woke, which was something they 1) forced into government in order to support their family members who work at nonprofits and foundations, and 2) used to terrify their base into loyalty, a base whom they've encouraged to think of themselves as a Rainbow Coalition-style coalition of minority groups (while getting whiter and wealthier.)
The prescription is to drop the pretense of 2), I think they're saying. It's a distraction from the abundance of allowing large landowners to subdivide lots infinitely, without adding parking. Abundance is when you can sleep in an affordable above-ground coffin in SF; and the person who owns the land that it is on becomes 100x richer, forces small landowners out of the city, and coordinates with the rest to raise the rent again. Abundance: more opportunity to live more compactly than the law currently allows!
- propagandist 2y agoLet’s do the exact same thing we just did when we lost. Surely that’s going to work. Abundance is the new buzzword after the campaign of “brat” and “joy”. I hope people will see through this crap and demand better. This website isn’t leaving a good impression with the credulity displayed in the comments. Luckily it’s far from the mainstream.