Re:Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real est...
by x86x87 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @01:22PM
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Do capitalism!
No, not like that.
As a society we need to decide if we want to have the cake or eat the cake. If I own the land, I own the land. The city has a responsibility to consider this (and many other things) when developing infra.
There are a multitude of levers that can be pulled to deincentivize this behavior, but the tragedy is that the people who benefit from it are hand in hand with the people that make and apply the rules.
No, not like that.
As a society we need to decide if we want to have the cake or eat the cake. If I own the land, I own the land. The city has a responsibility to consider this (and many other things) when developing infra.
There are a multitude of levers that can be pulled to deincentivize this behavior, but the tragedy is that the people who benefit from it are hand in hand with the people that make and apply the rules.