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If you have a zero sum game, any advice you give is creating an arms race. The only solution is to have fewer Berliners or more housing.
by nicbou 1y ago
If you have a zero sum game, any advice you give is creating an arms race. The only solution is to have fewer Berliners or more housing.
- mike_hearn 1y agoOr eliminate rent control, allowing prices to float to the level people are actually willing to pay. You only see bot-driven stuff like that in cases where desirable goods are being deliberately under-priced.
- nicbou 1y agoThis will benefit the wealthier strata of society, but why does the city belong to them more than anyone else?
- mike_hearn 1y agoWhy should it belong to people who are good at botting? That's a much less fair way to allocate resources than wealth. In a free society wealth is used to buy things, that's the point of earning it. If you don't generate more wealth and you trade it away then eventually you end up poor again. If you're generating wealth continuously, then the things you can buy with it are the reward for doing so. It's much better for everyone that desirable apartments go to people who earned them rather than those who randomly managed to shave some milliseconds off a TCP connection.
- Larrikin 1y agoThe wealthy can buy bots then.