namlem

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by namlem 4y ago
Yeah. Though you'd need much less staff since you'd be getting lower volume.
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by namlem 4y ago
Lots of middle class families (to say nothing of the extremely wealthy, who also often live in dense city centers) live in apartments and condominiums lol. It's the single family homes that are the problem. They are wildly inefficient
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by namlem 4y ago
Single family zoning, plus parking minimums, minimum floor-area-ratios, and minimum lot sizes.
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by namlem 4y ago
How would people get to work? If you have a new city, there are going to very few employers due to a lack of workers, and therefore few residents, due to a lack of employers. People who WFH can live anywhere, why would they move to an empty
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by namlem 4y ago
Not all of them failed. Las Vegas succeeded for example.
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by namlem 4y ago
NIMBYism seems to be a disease of Anglophone countries especially, it's true. It exists elsewhere, but it's particularly bad in the Anglosphere.
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China is a terrible example lol. They have a massive problem with real estate bubbles. Singapore does indeed do a good job, the government builds large amounts of high quality affordable housing. However, Japan has had success with a more p
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by namlem 4y ago
Speculation is not the cause, rent-seeking regulations are the cause. And these regulations are driven by the demands of ordinary homeowners seeking to protect their investment by artificially constraining new supply.
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by namlem 4y ago
One, chipmakers are indeed building new factories to increase production of chips, so your entire premise is incorrect. Two, the people criticizing the scalpers are wrong. NVIDIA and AMD were simply generous enough to not raise the price of
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by namlem 4y ago
Then why did Japan face a massive housing bubble in the 1980s, despite low immigration? And why did their housing problem only go away when they reformed their zoning laws to allow people to build? Population is a negligible factor. Laws re
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by namlem 4y ago
High modernist city planning from the 1950s and 60s was a disaster. No, we should go back to the organic cities of the 1910s and 20s, with their mixed-use, medium density streetcar suburbs.
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by namlem 4y ago
Dense urban neighborhoods are the ones propping up the single family neighborhoods, not the other way around. The infrastructure costs per taxpayer are way higher in low density neighborhoods. All those extra roads, sewage lines, water line
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by namlem 4y ago
Japan changed it. They passed sweeping zoning reform that made it easy to build and prices went down. New Zealand just passed sweeping reform to address their housing crisis as well. Reforms are being passed in the US too. Oregon, Californi
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by namlem 4y ago
None of this would have much impact. What is really needed is to abolish most forms of land use restrictions. Abolish parking minimums, abolish floor-area-ratio minimums, abolish single family zoning, abolish or severely limit community rev
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by namlem 4y ago
On the contrary, housing shouldn't appreciate. It's bad for the economy as a whole, and especially for young people, for homes to be an appreciating asset. Housing should be a commodity, not an investment.
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by namlem 4y ago
Tens of millions of Americans gained access to healthcare due to policy changes. The IRA just further expanded access to healthcare.
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by namlem 4y ago
Investment firms buying homes is a symptom, not a cause. The only reason they do that is because local government artificially inflate the value of homes through supply restrictions.
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by namlem 4y ago
Early voting. Let people cast their vote for the two weeks preceding the election.
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That's not true in most states, that's a California thing. Property taxes usually are set at the local level.
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by namlem 4y ago
Yes, it's a social contract that must be destroyed. Otherwise we will experience economic ruin. Look at what happened in Japan in the 1980s, or is happening in New Zealand in Canada. The fact of the matter is that this social contract
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by namlem 4y ago
It's probably very rare the holdouts sell truly cheap. More like slightly cheaper than they could, but still at a very large profit.
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by namlem 4y ago
Which is why California needs to fix the policies that led to its housing shortage. There is no inherent reason for California to be so expensive, it is a deliberate policy choice driven by local governments.
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by namlem 4y ago
The government isn't taking the house, a private buyer is purchasing it for its market value. Paying taxes on income is not communism lol.
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by namlem 4y ago
How far on the spectrum do you have to be for this to apply? I and a few of my friends are ASD, though very high functioning, and I'm pretty sure none of us have this problem.
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by namlem 4y ago
Unless your product is cars, in which case you are legally obligated to use the dealership model because most states have passed laws mandating it.
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by namlem 4y ago
In this case it's small business greed, not corporate greed.
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by namlem 4y ago
Dealerships are not an efficient way to run repair shops either. Would be better if manufacturers just used repair certification for independent shops.
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by namlem 4y ago
It's often too expensive to be worth it though. Just look at Intel.
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Monetization alone isn't the problem, it's the specific algorithm that YouTube uses. Length, comments, etc. are rewarded.
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by namlem 4y ago
How are the content creators supposed to make a living? The advantage of YouTube is that people can do it as their full time job.

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