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Just like mass murders, these stories seem to be popping up everywhere in the US. I find it hard to understand how a country can be so good in some ways, but so terrible in others. Is it just because the successful truly extract all their wealth from the more unfortunate?
Just like mass murders, these stories seem to be popping up everywhere in the US. I find it hard to understand how a country can be so good in some ways, but so terrible in others. Is it just because the successful truly extract all their wealth from the more unfortunate?
Welcome to the US. How else do you think we have such a massive income disparity ? We’re a wealthy country but the wealth is in very few hands.
Here's a novel idea (/s): Move cities.
Here's a novel idea (/s): Move cities.
Anyone wanna move to California City? If enough of us do it at once we can jumpstart the growth cycle.
I'd scatter each department to a different rust-belt or similarly hollowed-out city, creating a permanent economic base and allowing redevelopment to jump start.
Just like mass murders, these stories seem to be popping up everywhere in the US. I find it hard to understand how a country can be so good in some ways, but so terrible in others. Is it just because the successful truly extract all their wealth from the more unfortunate?
1. freeze property taxes on residential construction 2. local government is running out of funding 3. local NIMBYs want theirs home values to rise 4. government prioritizes commercial development permits (no frozen taxes) 5. area becomes more "desireable" as the number of jobs increases 6. housing fails to keep up with growing number of migrants 7. rent and home values rise quickly and become unaffordable 8. NIMBYs i…
CA's local governments have basically reached crippling levels of stupidity. I live in Mountain View, the home town of Google, but every city around here has made building so difficult, that it barely happens. What we do build are expansive planned "communities", where a developer managed to navigate the web of red tape and got it approved, and the amount of red tape involved is so huge that it's not worth trying to…
Wait, really? Just for heat or also in the kitchen? Electric stove tops fucking suck. Ugh.
1. freeze property taxes on residential construction 2. local government is running out of funding 3. local NIMBYs want theirs home values to rise 4. government prioritizes commercial development permits (no frozen taxes) 5. area becomes more "desireable" as the number of jobs increases 6. housing fails to keep up with growing number of migrants 7. rent and home values rise quickly and become unaffordable 8. NIMBYs i…
CA's local governments have basically reached crippling levels of stupidity. I live in Mountain View, the home town of Google, but every city around here has made building so difficult, that it barely happens. What we do build are expansive planned "communities", where a developer managed to navigate the web of red tape and got it approved, and the amount of red tape involved is so huge that it's not worth trying to…
More construction is not going to solve this problem. The laws of supply and demand do not apply to American coastal real estate