@pmarca asks why America isn't building what needs to be built - masks, ventilators, universities, carbon-neutral energy, apartment buildings, et al.
We aren't building because we don't have a political lobby demanding competent state capacity and governance.https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1251634412334141440 …
I understand the ostensible purpose of the lobbying layer, I understand that it's tremendously expensive to lobby the SFBA or CA broadly to do *anything,* I like your stated mission. But god damn I'm tired of seeing this article purposely misread in this fashion.
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I agree that Marc is unlikely to support such advocacy efforts, which is why I think he will fail. Extra mask manufacturing capacity would not have made up for the lack of competent state capacity to address a public health crisis. The main problems are cultural and political.
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Innovation in the home building sector, for instance, requires massive regulatory change to scale to address the shortage. As the ADU firms in the first Housing Lab cohort make clear, they would have no business without recent state legislation.https://www.housinglab.co/
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