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The fact that not all detractors share the exact same beliefs doesn't mean it isn't an ideological phenomenon apparent among populists on both the left and righ
by lanfeust6 1y ago
The fact that not all detractors share the exact same beliefs doesn't mean it isn't an ideological phenomenon apparent among populists on both the left and right. This hardly needs to be said. There's a pretty common thread among critics of e.g. Abundance.
I thought you were perhaps leading up to your having a different take that isn't captured here. Do you?
edit: looks like that's a no.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoBut it makes reductive takedowns valuable conversation? On the heels of a comment about not sullying oneself with politics?
- lanfeust6 1y agoI ask again: do you have anything to say?
- cosmicgadget 1y agoThat the author does himself disservice by lacing his post with vague political criticisms after sarcastically saying he isn't an expert in politics? I thought that would be obvious by now.
- lanfeust6 1y ago[dead]
- lanfeust6 1y ago"ordinary people simply do not believe that adding more housing to the regional stock would reduce housing prices. Across three original surveys of urban and suburban residents, only a minority of respondents say that a large, positive, regional housing supply shock would reduce prices or rents. These beliefs are weakly held and unstable (suggesting people have given the issue little thought), but respondents do have stable views about who is to blame for high housing prices: developers and landlords. Large, bipartisan supermajorities support price controls, demand subsidies, and restrictions on putative bad actors, policies which they believe would be more effective than supply liberalization for widespread affordability. " -- https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20241428 https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20241428 Not that I expect you to care about evidence.