Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem
by lisper on Saturday December 02, 2017 @12:56PM
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If you want to look at it that way, all of human civilization is a giant Ponzi scheme. Exponential growth cannot be sustained indefinitely on a finite planet, or even in a finite universe.
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Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem
by TulliusCicero on Saturday December 02, 2017 @02:36PM
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No, because human civilization doesn't depend on that growth. A stable population works fine.
Whereas, the whole "enrich myself off property values" thing only works if those values are continually increasing.
Re:The Great American Single-Family Home Problem
by lisper on Saturday December 02, 2017 @03:15PM
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> A stable population works fine.
That is far from clear. No human civilization has ever had a stable population.
> the whole "enrich myself off property values" thing only works if those values are continually increasing.
That's true, but that's not what I was talking about. What I was talking about is people's reasonable desire for a stable environment. Rising housing costs is just a side-effect of that plus population growth.
You might as well blame the situation on people who have babies as on people who want to limit growth in their communities.