Re:Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California
by imtringued on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:06PM
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You're not solving the problem. There is no shortage of space for the future 11 billion humans. The big problem is the centralization of companies within few top tier cities without a corresponding increase in housing for the (locally) growing population.
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Re:Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California
by esotericn on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:33PM
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I agree.
It's fundamentally ridiculous to just have everyone that "matters" live in the same city or small group of cities.
That's what people seem to be talking about here. In the UK it's London, in the US it's SF, NYC and a few others.
If "pack everyone into skyscrapers and have them rent their Logan's Run existence" is the model for the entire economy I'm honestly quite sad about that.
Re:Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California
by CydeWeys on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:00PM
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Network effects are real. You can't wish them out of existence; it simply doesn't work that way. Inevitably some cities will be better at some things than other cities, and that advantage snowballs.