Comment by cscurmudgeon | Hacker News Reader

Comment by cscurmudgeon | Hacker News Reader

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Respectfully, plenty of data below disproving what you say.

> there is plenty of unused housing inventory

False: https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/musne8/dispro...

What do you say about cities losing literally hundreds of millions on housing funds?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/04/13/audit-san-jose-failed...

> the problem is that people can no longer afford rents

And that is because supply is low. Go to the root cause of that:

https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/08/san-francisco-new-housing-...

> San Francisco approved just 7 new homes in 2 months. Why?

https://scott-wiener.medium.com/yes-supply-demand-apply-to-h...

Supply/demand is proven science in housing.

> it's all bad if it comes from "the government."

The other side of the coin is:

It's all good if it comes from "the government."!

https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/9bipvp/south-park-the-g...

You should also read up on the case where the Chevron deference happened in the first place.

You cherry-picked all of these sources and ignored than 8 billion official and academic resources that refute your stance lol.

You and the person I replied to post 0 out of these "8 billion official and academic resources."

Feel free to add just one of the "8 billion official and academic resources" that you and OP ignored.

If you say supply and demand doesn't work for housing (science proven over centuries in human societies all over the world), you are similar to vaccine deniers.

Money is a socialized hallucination

We’re following along with the pseudoscience and propaganda of the prior generation of post war shellshocked Cold War paranoids

Supply demand has more to do with real supply. Even if there’s plenty of housing in BFE no one wants to live there. Where the supply is and other variables matter. Cherry picked social media and corporate news may as well be throwing spaghetti at the wall. This is the colloquial equivalent to p-hacking.

I suppose if that’s the case then human society is a hallucination. It only has as much reality and value as we decide as a group to give it. Any bit of human construct can be considered a hallucination beyond realities like eating, drinking, and expelling without which we cease to exist.

Yep. Society is not immutable physics. Note how it keeps changing despite appeals of prior generations to stay the same.

How the species tries to blow itself up.

If we were meant to exist forever all these physics things would not be able to harm us. Constrain us to life on Earth. We couldn’t die.

Entropy is a bitch.

Hey, language is a socialized hallucination too.

Using that logic, thanks for agreeing with me!

Yeah it is. It’s highly mutable. No need for it to be what you believe it to be.

My point is the endless possibilities and only one real reality matters; enough people feel served by society or they’ll forget the words and reach for guns.

Your grasp of contemporary memes is not armor against physics.

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