ANYWAY. If you're ever tempted to argue with Marxist geographers (or philosophers who believe the same things) you can just cite my paper instead. YOU'RE WELCOME AMERICA 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Problem: literally any large scale social cooperation depends on "alienated" social relations. This isn't an objection to *housing markets*. It's an objection to *civilization* (extended version of this tweet coming soon to an MPSA near you).

But maybe alienation is intrinsically bad independently of distributive justice. Maybe it's just bad when we aren't intrinsically motivated by others' welfare.

So the claim that alienation is responsible for distributive injustice has to be empirical. PROBLEM: It's false. As we know thanks to Mast, Puga, Glaeser, Gyourko, and a WHOLE bunch of other people, high prices are ~caused by supply restrictions

Contra geography professors, markets are conceptually compatible with egalitarian distribution. I illustrate this with the Feeding America choice system auction (shout out to Canice Prendergast)

Some people think housing markets are *alienating*, because buying and selling housing causes us to view it and each other instrumentally. That's supposed to explain our housing crisis. PROBLEM: This argument is either false or self undermining.

What's your email?

It's populated by humanities professors?

“Sports ball” and “I don’t even own a TV” are virtue signaling for virtues that suck

This is beautifully written and super clear. Really good!!

Think y'all can afford that buyout?

Not a jmp but I'm pretty sure Doug Mackay has written about it