Comment on Housing prices
Soup@lemmy.world 2 days agoIf we’re already living in a world where we can tax homes at 100%, 200%, etc. then we’re also living in a world where we can pretty easily tell NIMBYs to go fuck themselves.
Comment on Housing prices
Soup@lemmy.world 2 days agoIf we’re already living in a world where we can tax homes at 100%, 200%, etc. then we’re also living in a world where we can pretty easily tell NIMBYs to go fuck themselves.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Catch 22. As a politician you gotta please the people with money. The people buying homes taxed 200% have the money. Until we reach Star Trek levels of selfless post scarcity society that’s not going to happen and by that point it won’t be necessary.
Soup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I like how we’re making a scenario where things might actually go well and you’re still trying to find ways to lose.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m trying to find realistic solutions. And if we don’t red team premortem then we are building to fail.
Soup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The problem with people who take your approach is you never actually use your negativity to offer solutions. Then you act like you’re “being realistic and just trying to help”, such that if someone calls you out you can try to deflect and feel smart. You aren’t contributing anything to the conversation but telling everyone things they already know.
Example of something even vaguely close to genuine participation in the conversation: “Hmmm, the NIMBYs won’t like that. We’d probably also want to include a rule that demands a certain amount of social housing per neighbourhood, or [other actual solutions]. We could also use town halls as ways to lure them(they love to complain in public) in and then explain exactly what market-rate housing is. There are answers for sure, maybe places like Vienna can show us how they got theirs in place.”