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to rebut this sticking to your libertarian premise (which I don't agree with, but you might actually listen then!): Government intervention caused this. The go
by tehwalrus 14y ago
to rebut this sticking to your libertarian premise (which I don't agree with, but you might actually listen then!):
Government intervention caused this. The government strictly controls which land can be built on, and restricts supply so much that this is what is left. If government stopped restricting which land developers could buy, build on, and sell as housing (which is a bad idea for another reasons, but not libertarian ones) then this problem would go away.
- wilfra 14y agoLibertarians are not the only ones who believe it is not the governments responsibility to provide for the poor.
- king_jester 14y agoIt is the responsibility of society and communities to end situations that even allow for the poor to exist, otherwise we are simply sending people to their doom.
- wilfra 14y agoWell hey, I'll get on board with that. Sounds like an impossibility though unless you're a country like Kuwait with an endless supply of money you don't have to work for and a tiny population.
- lilsunnybee 14y agoMaybe, if there weren't many wealthy people out in the world buying worthless shit with their money, power and influence.
- sadfasdfa 14y agoComing from a family of humble means, poor, whom emigrated to the US from Mexico I can tell you that a lot of the reasons that poor people are poor is because they choose to be poor. So forgive me if I'm not too sympathetic about poor people. In the USA of all the friends that I had I was the only one to go to college. We were all in the same boat but I chose to study and do my homework and they did not. Then there were lots of other students that not only would they not care about their studies but they actually made it worse for the rest of us in a daily basis. They got into gangs, smoke pot, bullied other students, where disruptive during class. You know what, fuck them. They chose to waste their youth, they chose to do nothing with their lives so I don't give a fuck about them being poor. I was there, in the trenches with them and I can tell you that nobody forced them to waste their lives. They did it of their own will.
- javert 14y agoNo, poor people who breed are sending people to their doom.
- fnordfnordfnord 14y agoLet me get this straight. You think that if it were allowed to build on every square foot of HK, that there would be no housing problem in HK? What additional problems do you imagine would be created by the paving-over of every unit of land?
- tehwalrus 14y ago> which is a bad idea for another reasons, but not libertarian ones I don't think it's a good idea, Libertarians do.