Re:Ask HN: How can we digitise housing
by perilunar on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:33PM
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> can we ... do what has been done for music to housing
No, because unlike digital goods, houses (and land) cannot be duplicated at zero marginal cost.
> So that we can stop working our lives into the ground to afford it.
It's not houses that are expensive, it's the land, and as long as people speculate on land then land in popular cites will be expensive. Read Henry George's Progress and Poverty:
No, because unlike digital goods, houses (and land) cannot be duplicated at zero marginal cost.
> So that we can stop working our lives into the ground to afford it.
It's not houses that are expensive, it's the land, and as long as people speculate on land then land in popular cites will be expensive. Read Henry George's Progress and Poverty:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty