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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 9 Dec 2017
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      If you don’t allow enough X to be produced then it isn’t the market which excludes people from having X; the market/prices just deliver the bad news to the marginal people you decided didn’t really need an X available.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 9 Dec 2017
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      “How is Tokyo addressing its housing crisis?” “We don’t have one. We build homes.” “Do you discourage techies from moving into town?” “Techies live in homes so we build homes.” “How do you deal with Chinese speculators?” “Build homes.” “But earthquakes and ocean!” “Build homes.”

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 9 Dec 2017
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      “It’s a pity you have no subsidized housing.” “We do. Build homes.” “And I envy your lack of regulation.” “Got regulations. Build homes.” “You have to understand, Republicans.” “I don’t, but, build homes.” “I suppose there must be some inscrutable cultural thing.” “Build homes.”

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        2. Neil Mackenzie‏ @mknz 10 Dec 2017
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          It's easy to suggest building homes as a universal solution when a city like Tokyo can spread out. It is an overly simplistic solution for a city like San Francisco that is geographically constrained

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        3. Alon (they/them)‏ @alon_levy 10 Dec 2017
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          Did you just refer to Tokyo, whose urban extent goes right to the mountains, as "a city that can spread out"?

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        1. Adam Ludwin‏ @adamludwin 9 Dec 2017
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          This is a great poem

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        1.  🇸🇪‏ @giggs_boson 9 Dec 2017
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          2002 a law was passed that deregulated the market and took the ability of municipalities the ability to control private property. Thus allowing private owners to do what they wanted. It quickly solved the problem they had

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        1. Andreas Fuchs‏ @antifuchs 9 Dec 2017
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          something something americans are only allowed to make decisions that benefit anyone in the short term

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        1. Darth Covidious‏ @nycplayer 11 Dec 2017
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          I lived in subsidized housing in Tokyo, had a two bedroom (2LDK), an hour from downtown, 10 minute walk to station, for 18% of my salary. (And my salary there was less than half what it is here in the Bay Area)

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        1. hack 🕴️2020‏ @hacklaw 9 Dec 2017
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          Is the cultural difference that making 2-3x profit on homes and houseflipping isn't really an expected thing in Japan?

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        1. Maxwell Power‏ @maxwellpower 10 Dec 2017
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          Yes, let's simplify the housing crisis into a soundbite. "But cities like Mountain View refuse to 'build homes,' so companies lean on cities w/old infrastructure like Oakland and San Francisco to house their-" "BUILD HOMES!" "This wetland is-" "BUILD HOMES!"

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        2. henry campbell‏ @RutterX2 9 Dec 2017
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          What do Republicans have to do with it? Find me a Republican in San Francisco.

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        3.  🇸🇪‏ @giggs_boson 9 Dec 2017
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          Also, Tokyo actually implemented a Reaganomics scheme of deregulation that allowed all this to happen.

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