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ElGosso
joined 4 years ago
I remember the night of the 2008 election, when Obama won, I was part of the collective sigh of relief across the nation. I remember thinking, "now things are finally going to change," and feeling genuinely hopeful.
To my credit, the country was psychotic under Bush, at least until 2006. And then the Great Recession happened, and it was worse.
I'd rather get punched in the face than eat hardboiled eggs
Lol it's all good. If there's ever a day for resurrection, it's today.
I think a
nonvegan
ham
dinner is traditional
Damn, that thread necro.
Never got into DF, but Rimworld is pretty good in that regard. I haven't played it in a little bit, but I don't remember it being especially buggy.
There was a big trend a few years ago where all the small practices got bought out by corporate chains. I'm not surprised it's all a scam.
"Tell me how price controls would cause less people to be housed"
Bourgeois economics will tell you that setting a price ceiling below market value means it's less worthwhile to build new housing so there's less investment in it, which means demand doesn't keep up with supply.
Now, the issue with this in the reality we live in here in the USA, at least, is that, if given free license, real estate developers will build high-end luxury condos because they're the most profitable. YIMBYists will tell you this is fine because the wealthiest people will move into those condos, and less wealthy people will move into the newly vacated housing. Everyone "inherits" the housing a rung up, and everyone's living conditions are a little better. In reality, this process takes ages, and since demand is so high, it means that the new stock is snapped up by wealthy out-of-towners anyway, and a lot of the middle and lower tier is just straight out bought up by investment firms who would rent it out and suck up all the real estate capital for themselves.
This can be circumvented by public ownership. Here's a good write-up of Vienna's public housing situation. By owning the bulk of the housing and leaving it open to residents at a low cost, you can force developers to either match your prices, or cater to other niches like the wealthy, which, in a bourgeois economy, is honestly fine.
I heard that Dirt Owl has two pairs
The purpose of this comm is literally to quarantine all of the "finding an idiot to get mad at" posts. This rule change is gonna make the rest of the site worse.