Whether there's anything wrong with reserving the city core for wealthy people only, I didn't really make any normative claims about that.
There are of course many reasons to consider it problematic: cultural segregation, justice, etc, but you probably don't care about those things, so I won't waste my time.
Oh, and "willingness to pay" is a pretty yucky way to put it.
Buying low and selling high, how awful.
Furthermore, most low income households who own property aren't engaging in speculation, they are simply trying to keep the property they inherited.
The response to someone being forced out of a home they've lived in for their whole life needs to be something more compassionate than "tough shit, you greedy poor".
Is there a point beyond that? Note that I didn't advocate any specific policy, I just pointed out that a specific argument was internally contradictory, which you don't seem to disagree with.
I'm just calling out ahoy for writing a post that's little but virtue signalling and nerd shaming.
You're taking this thread into personal attack, plus slinging a lot of sarcasm around, which has the effect that trolling does. Please stop doing these things.
It's a personal attack to say someone is right and that people might like them?
(I'm assuming since you've singled me out for reply that you have little problem with ahoy's comment.)
> I'm assuming since you've singled me out for reply that you have little problem with ahoy's comment
Quite the opposite, and I'm surprised you'd fall for that non sequitur. The comment was bad by HN's standards. It added noise and indignation much more than it added information.
I replied to you, though, because you've posted more in this thread and because the pattern I described is problematic.
I honestly agree with ahoy that "heartless, dispassionate thought" is likel to cause a lot of people to dislike me and other tech people. (I also think it's more likely to be correct.) You've clearly been following my posts, is this an implausible belief for me to hold?
If I incorrectly interpreted a comment replying to me as as singling me out, I offer my apologies. Perhaps I'm being oversensitive. I was attempting to make a measured response to what I considered a less than pleasant comment.
Is this an ad hom?
What about this bit