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by bpt3 4mo ago
Thanks for confirming you're doing exactly what I thought you were. Claiming there's "very little middle class left" is laughable, and then I can double over when I remember that the median household income is higher in
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by bpt3 4mo ago
Sure, lots of people have no idea what it's like to live abroad and have doomers telling them to get out because it's not their fault they aren't successful in the country where the middle class has the highest disposable inc
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by bpt3 4mo ago
And those comments are correct for the vast majority of American households, which is why the status quo remains.
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by bpt3 4mo ago
> I help a non profit help US residents get out of the US, explaining the risk model of remaining in the US is a component of that work Congratulations, I think you just described the most ridiculous non-profit in existence.
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by bpt3 4mo ago
It's normally measured at over 90%. I am in support of socialized medicine, but most Americans like their healthcare when asked, and until that changes, the system won't change either.
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by bpt3 5mo ago
Condos basically just force you to pay for the ongoing maintenance that the author mentioned, but with the downside of not actually having any control over the quality of the work or the decision making process at all unless you're on
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by bpt3 5mo ago
Yep. Yet many on here (and other specific online forums) will tell you that your only options should be owning a home or renting an apartment because they don't feel the single family home they desire is within their price range, and r
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by bpt3 5mo ago
By your personal definition of hoarding maybe. Enjoy all the housing you could ever want when your town has even less economic activity than it did before!
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by bpt3 5mo ago
I mean, you can call it hoarding if you like, but that's not a very widely held opinion. Spain is one of the last places on Earth I'd look to for economic policies. Enjoy your even higher unemployment and additional dying towns af
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by bpt3 5mo ago
> For homes, I don't know if there are. Generally, there aren't any meaningful number of completely vacant homes in desirable areas in major cities. The caveats are there for cities like Miami where there are a significant numb
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by bpt3 5mo ago
Cities in vacation spots have vacant homes, but most "big cities" do not, and vacation homes are not an example of hoarding. In short, you're just making things up. I'm glad you aren't in charge, though there are a
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by bpt3 5mo ago
You're "pretty sure"? All data would indicate otherwise, and why shouldn't short term rental or vacation properties exist?
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by bpt3 5mo ago
For one, you're solving a non-problem in the US and creating new problems. Why do you think people are hoarding land today that could be used for housing developments and leaving it empty? What is "too much" land that would s
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by bpt3 5mo ago
Why? Presumably you mean desirable land is scarce, which is true by definition, but land in the US is far from scarce.
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by bpt3 5mo ago
When in modern history has that ever worked? Why would this time be any different?
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by bpt3 5mo ago
When you ban "speculation" on an asset class, you're just telling owners (including creators) of that asset class that they will make less money if and when they sell. Setting aside the "I know it when I see it" def
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by bpt3 5mo ago
It's hard to think of a market that is less free than housing, including electric utilities with the advent of solar. Probably pharmaceuticals? I'm sure there are a couple others. Calling it "totally free" is naive. Beca
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by bpt3 5mo ago
No, the easiest way to curb this is to make it easier to build homes so that supply is closer to the level of demand, not create even more policies that will reduce supply. Controlling 11% of the rental market is not enough to manipulate it
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by bpt3 5mo ago
Maybe severe capital controls and other heavy-handed and objectively unwise but politically desirable (for a certain group) financial policies aren't the best plan for maintaining a stable economy? I wonder when Xi will come up with a
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by bpt3 5mo ago
Just make it easier to build houses. It's like the Bitter Lesson, but for regulation-loving progressives. Also, buying or building and operating an apartment complex isn't speculation in general, unless you consider basically any
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by bpt3 5mo ago
Where does this misguided theory that there are vacant homes in desirable areas come from? All data indicates it's not the case, as well as common sense.
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by bpt3 5mo ago
> It doesn't. It ends with me providing the common definition of meaningful, which is apparently something you were otherwise incapable of determining yourself? Your post was marked as dead by the mods, and I didn't have deadli
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by bpt3 5mo ago
> Thinking that Facebook should solve its own child pornography problem is not a weird perspective at all. What is weird about that? What do I need to elaborate on? That's my position. Are you saying it's unfounded? Again, the
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by bpt3 5mo ago
> I never used these words either. You don't use any words, other than repeatedly saying "Facebook should be solving this problem they created", so people have to fill in the gaps because that is a very strange perspective
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by bpt3 5mo ago
There's nothing dishonest about my attempts to have a conversation with you about this. You've decided that there's some relatively easy solution to a problem that existed before Facebook and will exist after Facebook that Fa
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by bpt3 5mo ago
Content moderation is a general problem, whether you're talking about child porn, content intended for mature audiences, or memes about Winnie the Pooh. What I and others are trying to tell you is that your obsessive focus on Facebook
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by bpt3 5mo ago
When social security "fails" (which I would define as not paying out 100% of its defined benefits), the payment structure will be changed and that's the end of it. If paying for basic living expenses and higher education for
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by bpt3 5mo ago
Define meaningful then? It's quite odd how you seem to be adamant that there is a perfect solution available yet seem to be talking around it.
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by bpt3 5mo ago
The problem generalizes, so there's no need to focus on this specific type of content. Care to address the actual issue?
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by bpt3 5mo ago
In what regard is it incorrect that a single, larger entity that is at least notionally committed to avoiding the existence of any specific type of content on their platform is more likely to successfully avoid the existence of that type of

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