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Who are the people that “seriously question basic market pressure being a thing”? Am I missing something?
by datsci_est_2015 7mo ago
Who are the people that “seriously question basic market pressure being a thing”? Am I missing something?
- ivewonyoung 7mo agoThere was an article on HN front page a few months ago which stated(paraphrased) "building more housing to reduce prices is a right wing ideology that doesn't match reality" or some such. I'll reply here if I find it.
- datsci_est_2015 7mo agohn.algolia.com is a great search interface. I searched “housing” and top posts in the past year and didn’t see anything related to your quote on the first two pages. Maybe I need to search deeper.
- ivewonyoung 7mo agoWhat I paraphrased wasn't in the article headline but inside the text, almost in passing. The best I could find was a couple of comments from two years ago which have a similar theme. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39206707 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39206707
- terminalshort 7mo agoJust look through the comments on any post about housing or immigration and you will see hordes of them.
- datsci_est_2015 7mo agoAre the comments in the thread with us right now? At best, from what I’ve seen, this is a strawman against the people that argue that building housing is not the only thing that should be done regarding housing. I’ve seen no comments that claim we shouldn’t build housing to alleviate the housing crisis. Most comments that I see are about how from a policy perspective it’s more complicated. There’s no single “build more homes” magic wand that works for every market. And in some markets there are real people with real issues who could be helped by temporary policies that make landlording less profitable on the margins while people figure out how to best “build more homes” for that market.
- array_key_first 7mo agoI think it's not that people question free market dynamics, it's that they question a market is free in the first place. For example, healthcare in the US is basically exempt from typical free market dynamics like supply and demand because of how the market works. Consumers don't choose, everyone has a moat and parents, and costs are often subsidized.
- malshe 7mo ago100%. I see more and more young people appreciating Carlin’s “it’s a big club and you ain’t in it” quote because they have come to terms with the rigged game. I think the GFC was the starkest exemplar of this.
- muyuu 7mo agobut the market doesn't need to be free for basic market pressure to have an overwhelming effect
- CalRobert 7mo agoEvery leftist European nimby party comes to mind.