"Just build/produce more" (abundance) sounds fantastic if you are part of the upper classes who have been on the right side of wealth inequality trends. It allows us to avoid the issue of inequality. Just grow the pie!!
But surely you can see how this agenda is not appealing to most Americans who have been on the wrong side of wealth inequality? Even if you double the size of the pie, how do you convince them that their proportional slice of it won't halve in the same period? Because that HAS been their experience so far in the past ~50 years.
We do need to build more, but that has to also come with reform to be politically viable.
I'm not sure a simple citation to the law of supply and demand can count as "bad faith"? I genuinely don't understand your argument, which is why I called it incoherent.
You genuinely don't understand that <median real wages have been stagnant/decreasing for decades in USA, particularly in relation to skyrocketing housing/education/medical costs? Do you have any situational awareness of what just happened politically in NYC?
I would assume users engaging in economic debate on HN would have a knowledge of the basic economic facts and trends, and not dismiss them as "incoherent".
This level of derangement pervades the housing discourse from the left, and it's best to ignore it. At best you will argue in circles forever. At worst, you will be called a fascist bootlicker, etc.
People with normal mental health agree that having enough homes for all the people is a precondition of considering the housing problem to be "solved".
Whoah, this degree of incivility also not helping the case I want to make here!
I agree with pretty much everything you've said on this thread, which makes it all the more important to me it be expressed persuasively and not angrily. Remember: you're not just writing to the person you're responding to, but also to everybody else who reads the thread. Trust readers to spot inane arguments, if you perceive them to be coming up!
But surely you can see how this agenda is not appealing to most Americans who have been on the wrong side of wealth inequality? Even if you double the size of the pie, how do you convince them that their proportional slice of it won't halve in the same period? Because that HAS been their experience so far in the past ~50 years.
We do need to build more, but that has to also come with reform to be politically viable.