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Re:A lot more market-rate construction helps low-income rent... by ObviousScience on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @08:57AM (#9256257)
> The world is then better off.

This conclusion doesn't follow from your premises, unless you include the hidden premise that more wealth in the world is the only criterion you're using.

Once you begin looking at things like wealth distribution or the like as measures of "better", your argument doesn't reach that conclusion.

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Re:A lot more market-rate construction helps low-income rent... by whybroke on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @09:31AM (#9256392)
He also implies that the firemen, ambulances drives and nurses who protect a city subject to earthquakes shouldn't live in it (and thereby likely be absent when an earthquake isolates it by knocking down the bridges again).

But logic must take a backseat to ideology.

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