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Capitalism is the exploitation of men by men. Communism is the exact opposite.
Quite sure there was plenty of exploitation in communist countries.
I think that’s supposed to be the joke.
Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm
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Greater-Tokyo has a population density about 15 times more than Greater-LA. If LA had Tokyo density you could fit pretty much the entire US population in it.
See, we don't even need land use to be that efficient!
Tokyo also fits you into apartments like sardines. You don't really have a "home" so much as a bathroom and bedroom you rent out long term to crash after 12 hour work days. And Tokyo still isn't cheap to live in despite that. Way cheaper than LA/SF but not by much.
I think people are so steadfast in the discussion of walkable cities that they forget why suburbs developed. Post WW2 America had a huge economic boom and a lot of soldiers to compensate. The US has tons of land to give out so the Silent Generation was handed swaths of land to to build a home with and raise a family in, and the boomers popped up as a result of such. They then made such rules and regulations to upkeep such a lifestyle.
It's not so much efficiency for a town as it was convinence for the individual. Great way to build up nationalism when you own more land than you know what to do with. Sure it backfired 70 years later, but you can understand why this move to "walkable cities" would feel like trying to take away some goodwill for those who benefitted back then.
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#75Outback steakhouse? Uh huh. That's Florida ownership (def US) if I recall correctly
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Doesn't almost all well water have these sorts of contaminants? I wouldn't expect it from a city water system but if drawing from a well I'd assume I'd need to independently filter.
If web users had to pay money for specialized 3rd-party plugins just to use CSS filters then everything would just get rendered server side. Same logic applies to the physical space. Just throw a filter on the well side. That avoids shipping a bloated, unnecessary package to each and every client just to run water. :)
Just choose a different water provider who does filter, it's a free market, and the invisible hand will sort it out as the economies of scale will mean the central filter will be cheaper.
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You're living the libertarian dream. No pesky government getting in the way, just free association between you and the person who owns your means of life.
Except he still pays taxes for the services he doesn't use ...
I pay taxes for services I don't use too. Police, courts, fire, roads, air traffic control, garbage disposal, the military, etc. That's why they are taxes and not business transactions.
I also buy products I don't use. I pay for netflix, but I've never seen squid game.
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If web users had to pay money for specialized 3rd-party plugins just to use CSS filters then everything would just get rendered server side. Same logic applies to the physical space. Just throw a filter on the well side. That avoids shipping a bloated, unnecessary package to each and every client just to run water. :)
Just choose a different water provider who does filter, it's a free market, and the invisible hand will sort it out as the economies of scale will mean the central filter will be cheaper.
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If they want to cut parts of the forest now and then as part of lifecycle management why not allow logging for profit?
Clearing out fuel/undergrowth is a very different activity than logging trees. No money in the former.
I think if they’re burning it though they could allow logging it (maybe with the stipulation that you also remove undergrowth?), it’s not like fire leaves the trees alone.
But someone else pointed out that apparently logging up there is much more difficult than getting easy trees in the less remote, flatter southeast, so it’s probably still not an exciting reason why this logging isn’t happening.
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It might not look different but it feels different - year round weather is great Coastal SoCal has the best weather in the world. Natural beauty in beaches & parks LA & SF are world class cultural powerhouses. Silicon Valley is the tech capital of the world How can it not be expensive ?
> How can it not be expensive ? By having supply increasing with demand. It will likely never be as cheap as some place in bum fuck nowhere. But it could still be much cheaper. Specially if you take into account both living and transportation cost.
You are assuming that demand is not elastic though. If 1,000,000 more houses were built in the desirable parts of CA and filled with new residents, are you completely sure that there wouldn’t still be at least as many people seeking to live there as this year? It would still be just as temperate and any dip in prices would be seized on as a great opportunity to snap up a home, increasing demand. I suspect the equilibrium price of housing would barely change at all.
I am still very pro-development, but I don’t actually think it would get cheaper to live in these places - just because there’s such a plentiful supply of more people to move there.