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Lithos

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12. It is not so simplistic a view
Thu May 8, 2025, 04:09 PM
May 2025

It is just like Reaganomics in that it is designed to move money from the middle class into the oligarchs.

Consider:

- It's a one-size-fits-all solution. Golden hammer fallacy - everything is a nail.
- It focuses on the wrong problems. It argues that the problem is scarcity, but omits that scarcity is often the result of abundance in other areas. For instance, the skewed distribution of wealth.
- Similarly, fixing abundance will not guarantee the addressing of scarcity. Cut the regulations and the developers will build more STRs or high-end Mcmansions as it gives them more profit. Does it help with the real problem of affordable housing? Absolutely not.
- It makes no distinction between anti-trust and bureaucratic regulations from those involving environmental and social protections. That squiggle in the highway that protects sensitive wetlands? Get rid of the wetlands!

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