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0 pointsoangemangut3y ago0 comments

Sure, when we subsidize all expensive bits of suburban living it artificially decreases the cost to the home owner of all the negative externalities.

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johnweldon3y ago

I appreciate this argument - and there is some truth to it, but certainly not to the point of (paraphrasing here) "anyone who doesn't want to live in the city is participating in a Ponzi scheme"

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0 pointsoangemangut3y ago0 comments

Sure, when we subsidize all expensive bits of suburban living it artificially decreases the cost to the home owner of all the negative externalities.

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johnweldon3y ago

I appreciate this argument - and there is some truth to it, but certainly not to the point of (paraphrasing here) "anyone who doesn't want to live in the city is participating in a Ponzi scheme"

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse