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Its the opposite of quality of life. Immigrants are irrelevant to it. Higher housing costs benefit nobody, local or immigrant. In no place in earth are housing
by donkeybeer 8mo ago
Its the opposite of quality of life. Immigrants are irrelevant to it. Higher housing costs benefit nobody, local or immigrant. In no place in earth are housing costs coming down, so no matter immigrant or not we need to build housing at a mass scale just to have a fighting chance against rising prices. Making this about immigrants is bullshit. Refusing to build houses is utter bullshit, its the opposite of quality of life. It leads to crap quality of life and then people whine and cry and ask for more self destructive crap further spiraling into crap. Making houses cheap benefits everyone, keeping houses expensive harms everyone.
- toomuchtodo 8mo agoAnd building over every piece of land available diminishes quality of life in someplace like Switzerland with physically constrained geography.
- donkeybeer 8mo agoThen they should make death chambers for people if they think they are full. At 9 million people, they could choose to live nicely with 4000 sq m lots per person or they can keep crying about housing prices while not doing the one tried and tested solution capitalism offers to high prices. Even if we take out untenable mountain land, how much does that leave us? There is no place on earth that is lacking land for housing. Its a self created problem.
- donkeybeer 8mo agoTo keep things in context, this entire comment chain is downstream of someone complaining about housing prices.
- donkeybeer 8mo agoWho's to say they don't already have too much housing? People proposing this policy should lead by example and have their own houses demolished.
- donkeybeer 8mo agoLet us amend the plan of action. People proposing this policy should lead by example and kill themselves to show commitment to keeping population in check.