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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by cortesoft on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:33PM (#20690925)
Some houses are still going to be more desirable than others... how do we determine who gets which?
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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by jodrellblank on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @06:40PM (#20700780)
This sounds a lot more like inviting a trolling argument than any kind of genuine inquiry.

Here I say "landlord epxloitation, profiteering from necessities, houses left unlived in as investment vehicles for the international super rich, NIMBYism and entrenched residents voting against housing stock, AirBNB, broken zoning incentives" and then you say "FREE MARKET it's rich people's right to buy up everything and if you disagree you're dumb, free market is best market". And then we disagree to agree and both leave unhappy. Is that an approximately good summary?

We don't need to determine who gets which for this comment chain, we only need to question whether a 30 year mortgage should be the default way for a normal person to keep the rain off their bed, someone who isn't thinking of a beach condo in Malibu or a NYC penthouse, whether that is the best possible "perfect" world. I think it isn't.

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