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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by zozbot234 on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:39AM (#22201537)
I suppose it beats the CA housing crisis where people aren't even allowed to live in flats the size of closets, even if many would be quite willing to.
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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by 0xfaded on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:58AM (#22201664)
I disagree with this because it solves the exponential wealth distribution problem exactly by making exponential wealth acceptable. It's okay that I live in a mansion where 100 people could live because those 100 people have the option to live in a closet.

I would instead favour making unproductive use of land exponentially expensive through taxation. However I admit the details of how that would be implemented are very fuzzy.

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