Bernie is terrible but we fucking cornered young people
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The extant infrastructure around education, housing and healthcare is rife with rent-seeking that transfers wealth backwards through the generations. And the regulatory environment ensures that young people cannot solve their own problems.
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Want to buy some underdeveloped/cheap-ish land reasonably near to the job centers and throw some prefab/DIY homes on it? Sorry, no permit for you. Try again next year, and the year after that. Expect to be fined each day you try to move forward on the build.
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Want to use the vast, unprecedented resources freely available online and within your community to learn a trade? Sorry, there's a license for that with mandatory credential requirements. Better start writing checks for hoops to jump through.
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If you grow up blindfolded and hog-tied from day 1, it's not that surprising that you might beg to be spoonfed rather than beg to be untied.https://twitter.com/zachalberico/status/1236366333891063809 …
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I think there’s something else going on too - why do a lot of young people argue for rent control and price controlled affordable housing instead of massively increasing housing supply? Why do people blame economic growth instead of anti-growth housing policy?
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I think there’s an unfortunate case where the wrong answers *seem* right to people even though they make things worse overall and the better solutions are an inferential hop away that a lot of people never get to.
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