wind0w

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by wind0w 7y ago
Healthcare should be publicly run. It should not be a business. It is toxic because it is a business.
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by wind0w 7y ago
Yeah because anti semitism has long and violent history. White people have not been on the receiving end of systemic violence because of their whiteness -- they have perpetrated in and benefited from it. Yours is a bizarre liberal conceptio
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by wind0w 7y ago
>Housing is a resource. If you have a magic wand to make resources exempt from economic forces, please wave it over food prices for the rest of us. That magic wand is called public policy. There are similar things you could say about foo
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by wind0w 7y ago
That's correct -- there is no contradiction here. A totally unregulated housing market would be an unmitigated disaster. And some regulations are certainly counter-productive (e.g. exclusionary zoning). The problem isn't "mor
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by wind0w 7y ago
> the only thing that makes financial sense to build is luxury apartment Exactly! That's the problem with housing as a market commodity -- developers will only build luxury housing or slums. A deregulated housing market looks like t
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by wind0w 7y ago
I agree -- but we need public housing. The market does not build affordable housing. Libertarians have this idea that the housing market is restricted by government regulation and just needs to be freed in order to flourish. In actuality,
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by wind0w 7y ago
Housing should not be a commodity. Rent control is a solution to a specific problem of housing being a commodity -- landlords spiking tenants' rents, forcing them to relocate. It isn't a solution to the housing shortage. The solut
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by wind0w 7y ago
Exactly. Crime is a social and economic problem that prisons and police do little to solve, with great harm to society. Our resources would be better spent elsewhere.
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by wind0w 7y ago
Great news! Let's work on abolishing public prisons next.