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>A successful society is not just a rampant pursuit of economics and profits at the expense of everything else.

Right, but people are incentivized by the profit motive and generally do what they can to meet it.

To just say "think of the people" is swimming upstream; you're more likely to succeed by finding a way to modify the system to drive people towards actions that benefit each other.

Unfortunately it is not very human to forgo money, power, fame in exchange for what they think is the right thing to do. That's why we've had to create economic or political systems that saddle the drive for those things and steer it towards things that benefit society.

I'm not American, but I share this opinion. Berlin needs housing - but what they're doing is to make it maximally unattractive to invest in housing. That's just illogical, and even critized by non-profit housing orgs (Baugenossenschaften).

While I don't necessarily disagree with rent controls, portraying this measure as people vs corps is simplistic. As long as the city relies on private investors to build new residences, lower investment also means the PEOPLE who could have lived in Berlin are left out.

(The measure is also typically bourgeois; it throws some crumbs to fix the outcry so the capitalist system can remain in place)