Silicon Valley's housing crisis, in one sentence

Re:Silicon Valley's housing crisis, in one sentence by rconti on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @06:56PM (#11858675)

Any argument that boils down to "this other argument lacks perspective" presumes that there is a preferably alternative without all kinds of unintended consequences.

We're seeing the unintended consequences of one alternative. Of course, we haven't tested all of the possible universes yet.

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Re:Silicon Valley's housing crisis, in one sentence by archagon on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @07:05PM (#11858735)

My point is that changing the deeply-entrenched status quo is not a matter of looking at a spreadsheet and picking the "best" option. The consequences of the alternative have to be preferable over the consequences of the status quo to the voter base. No amount of rabble-rousing will make people vote against their own best interests.

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