Whether big or small. We all have that one thing from Scifi we wished were real. I’d love to see a cool underground city with like a SkyDome or a space hotel for instance.

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Regardless, you are failing to engage with my actual point, which is that unnecessary restrictions on the production of goods will drive manufacturers to produce only the most high-margin options,

    Yet you gave the example of food being cheap which has regulations. It’s cheap because it is subsidized. Farmers aren’t the only industry with lobbiests.

    how we built affordable housing in the past.

    1. We killed the existing land owners so there was a surplus of land.

    2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_of_1949 (required cheap housing to be built to replace any cheap housing torn down.)

    So, we should remove these barriers first and see what happens.

    The only barrier is the people who vote. If a community votes against a developer, that’s their constitutional right. Which is why I said the supply is the problem. Giving more money to renters does not change the supply. If more housing was built, the price would go down and ubi wouldn’t be needed.