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Poll: What is the worst case of elite culture fail?
  • Epstein/media lab
    23.2%
  • Sackler opioid business
    23.7%
  • GOP caving to Trumpism
    41.4%
  • Admissions scandal
    11.7%
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The housing crisis, since it’s essentially destroying many sources of culture. Not sure that can really be blamed on elites, but have a vague feeling that decision-makers are asleep at the wheel in the sense of not realizing that current polices are beginning to kill cities.
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But that was kind of an impulsive comment for me to make. More broadly there may be a structural pendulum shift going on where cities will have to have a bubble and then crash and fail before they can become viable for creative people again.
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From a pro-development point of view it would still cause problems with displacement in cases where the supply of housing was restricted.
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