Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars
by swiley on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:14PM
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While I agree with what you’re saying I’m not sure jeans and bananas are in the same category as housing because they’re much cheaper to produce (granted, simple concrete structures are also very cheap to produce, not quite so cheap though.)
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Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars
by thorwasdfasdf on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:19PM
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The point is, they wouldn't be cheap, if we created regulations around them. For instance, let's say, for environmental reasons you decided that all jeans must use the wool of a canadian sheep that's hard to grow. Now the price of jeans triples needlessly. This sort of thing happens all the time in housing and nobody ever realizes it.