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Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by alasdair_ on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:36PM (#19803723)
>Stuff that's affordable is usually not scarce. Hence you can't have both something that's scarce and affordable.

A gram of dirt from my backyard is completely unique from any other gram (at a molecular level) and is therefore incredibly scarce - if you want exactly THAT gram and no other. I’d also sell it for almost nothing, so it’s affordable.

Re:Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2... by icelancer on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:00PM (#19804223)
That is a substitutable good and you know it.