Economist Robert Shiller predicts ‘revolution’ by workers over remote work

Re:Economist Robert Shiller predicts ‘revolution’ by workers... by jerojero on Sunday August 27, 2023 @05:24AM (#37280923)

I love living in the City. Only problem is high rents.

I've been thinking of moving to Vienna that has a lot of socialized housing and other housing programs to keep prices affordable.

Cities with good public infrastructure are pretty nice for young-middle aged people I would say. It's just not something that exists in America. I've been to NYC, it was not at all a city I would put on my top list of cities I'd like to live in.

I think it's better to think of what cities can be when you think of Europe, cities in Spain, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, etc. these are extremely comfortable places to live in.

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Re:Economist Robert Shiller predicts ‘revolution’ by workers... by pydry on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:12AM (#37281172)

New York would be good too if the government would just tax the rentier-parasites and build some social housing.

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Re:Economist Robert Shiller predicts ‘revolution’ by workers... by thelastparadise on Sunday August 27, 2023 @07:58AM (#37281772)

Rent controls and more section 8 housing will make it a better place?

We've tried that enough already, no?

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Re:Economist Robert Shiller predicts ‘revolution’ by workers... by pydry on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:08AM (#37283400)

Sure. enough to know that it works.

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Re:Economist Robert Shiller predicts ‘revolution’ by workers... by SR2Z on Sunday August 27, 2023 @01:40PM (#37284893)

We need a better kind of rent control like LVT (which doesn't control rent, but disincentivizes parasitic landlords) and a better kind of public housing (like Singapore's HDB, which is self supporting).

The US does both of these really poorly and then acts surprised when they don't work.

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