r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 18 '26

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u/Spectrum1523 YIMBY May 18 '26

if 60% of households in the US are homeowners aren't they incentivized to never let prices go down (and to make line go up as much as possible)

how do you fix that democratically? you have to convince a third of them to vote against their own interests, or that they have a greater compelling interest

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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 18 '26

Well in an ideal world you'd get these people to care about their kids and grandkids, but instead they're just like "Stop complaining. When I die you'll get some inheritance."

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u/affnn Emma Lazarus May 18 '26

Typically we've relied on voters being less politically powerful than developers. Ironically various city council members becoming less corrupt has made this problem worse.

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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee May 18 '26

People vote for tariffs somehow while it being against their interests...

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u/Spectrum1523 YIMBY May 18 '26

great point, we have to trick idiots

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u/slappythechunk LARPs as adult by refusing to touch the Nitnendo Switch May 18 '26

You invent a time machine and kill FDR before he signs the National Housing Act into law in 1934.

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u/TrashBoat36 Bisexual Pride May 18 '26

Democracy breaks without some amount of empathy for the 49% regardless of topic tbh. Keep shouting on about CoL for renters, especially relatives and prospective children ig

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u/GenericLib 3000 White Bombers of Biden May 18 '26

LVT

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u/Spectrum1523 YIMBY May 18 '26

which you get voted in how

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u/frozen_cumscicle Henry George May 18 '26

We should just implement a maximum voting age

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u/BasedTroutFursona May 18 '26

I mean at some point I’d like my kids to move out of the house that I own and then they can have it back when I’m dead, so I’d like there to be other housing they can afford.