Paul Coelho
@individkid.bsky.social
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you break it, you own it
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
you break it, you own it
For the same reason they do now.
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
For the same reason they do now.
I assume the profit is 0.
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I assume the profit is 0.
I'm not a brainless business; I'm an individual; you can't cut me in half, like you can to a brainless business. Even if I were a brainless business, I'd not care if I were forced to decorate my product with half the price. Since I'd want to grow, I would simply produce twice as many units.
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm not a brainless business; I'm an individual; you can't cut me in half, like you can to a brainless business. Even if I were a brainless business, I'd not care if I were forced to decorate my product with half the price. Since I'd want to grow, I would simply produce twice as many units.
Why would the contractor cut anyone's pay, just because the product was decorated with a different price?
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Why would the contractor cut anyone's pay, just because the product was decorated with a different price?
On the other hand, as mayor, I'd also destroy some above market rate housing, too.
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
On the other hand, as mayor, I'd also destroy some above market rate housing, too.
My proposal was to limit new construction to half market rate. Since you have not provided any reason to believe they would make any less from building affordable, the onus is on you to give a reason they would leave. Otherwise, my claim that their laziness would prevent them from leaving is valid.
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My proposal was to limit new construction to half market rate. Since you have not provided any reason to believe they would make any less from building affordable, the onus is on you to give a reason they would leave. Otherwise, my claim that their laziness would prevent them from leaving is valid.
How to you leap from half market rate to half the reward? That's some AI level hallucination.
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
How to you leap from half market rate to half the reward? That's some AI level hallucination.
I propose prohibiting construction of any housing that is above half market rate. I think they would build faster at half market rate, because that's the only way they could grow without changing.
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I propose prohibiting construction of any housing that is above half market rate. I think they would build faster at half market rate, because that's the only way they could grow without changing.
That's it? I win? You admit you've been detached from reality by brainless business?
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
That's it? I win? You admit you've been detached from reality by brainless business?
Without conceding the profit motive (I think they care more about growing and not changing than money), they would make as much from affordable housing as from the housing that causes more harm. They presently choose to make the harmful housing, because harm reduces the voter power that they fear.
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Without conceding the profit motive (I think they care more about growing and not changing than money), they would make as much from affordable housing as from the housing that causes more harm. They presently choose to make the harmful housing, because harm reduces the voter power that they fear.
They are too lazy to research a new city. Why is it so difficult for you to imagine them investing in affordable housing?
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
They are too lazy to research a new city. Why is it so difficult for you to imagine them investing in affordable housing?
You are so indoctrinated by business propaganda, that you think no housing would be built? Prohibiting market rate housing would force investors to find different places for their money, but they don't have the imagination think outside of the real estate box, so they'd fund affordable housing.
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
You are so indoctrinated by business propaganda, that you think no housing would be built? Prohibiting market rate housing would force investors to find different places for their money, but they don't have the imagination think outside of the real estate box, so they'd fund affordable housing.
"no housing would be built" just means "the rich would leave", the same old scare tactic they are using against Mamdani. As I've explained, contractors just put an arbitrary price on their product. They wouldn't stop doing what they habitually do, just because they had to decorate it differently.
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"no housing would be built" just means "the rich would leave", the same old scare tactic they are using against Mamdani. As I've explained, contractors just put an arbitrary price on their product. They wouldn't stop doing what they habitually do, just because they had to decorate it differently.
If business were not a sacred cow in the USof$, we'd have a real socialist, not just a toenail in the door proto-socialist, like Mamdani. If I were mayor, I'd prohibit any construction that is above half of market rate. "Oh, but the rich would leave" you whine? We'd have lower prices without them.
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If business were not a sacred cow in the USof$, we'd have a real socialist, not just a toenail in the door proto-socialist, like Mamdani. If I were mayor, I'd prohibit any construction that is above half of market rate. "Oh, but the rich would leave" you whine? We'd have lower prices without them.
NYC is the densest city in the USof$. SF is also dense, because like NYC, it is geographically constrained. They collude just as much in blue cities as in blue dot cities. In my opinion, they collude to maximize harm, thus minimizing voter power over them.
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
NYC is the densest city in the USof$. SF is also dense, because like NYC, it is geographically constrained. They collude just as much in blue cities as in blue dot cities. In my opinion, they collude to maximize harm, thus minimizing voter power over them.
They don't compete. They collude. They made a collective decision to maintain their excuse to do harm. Your theory that they compete, and have magic "demand" balls, is why they do harm. They don't have to be individually aware of their collective decision to behave like brainless businesses.
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
They don't compete. They collude. They made a collective decision to maintain their excuse to do harm. Your theory that they compete, and have magic "demand" balls, is why they do harm. They don't have to be individually aware of their collective decision to behave like brainless businesses.
It's complicated, but you may well have cause and effect reversed. I think more likely is that landlords want to maintain the illusion that supply "demand" metaphysics is real, so voters don't get the big idea of forcing them to reduce prices.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It's complicated, but you may well have cause and effect reversed. I think more likely is that landlords want to maintain the illusion that supply "demand" metaphysics is real, so voters don't get the big idea of forcing them to reduce prices.
Building market rate does not bring down costs. There are lots of ways to bring down costs!
None of them entail trusting market forces.
None of them entail trusting market forces.
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Building market rate does not bring down costs. There are lots of ways to bring down costs!
None of them entail trusting market forces.
None of them entail trusting market forces.
To be clear, everything claimed to be climate adjacent, such as renewables and carbon capture removal, are greenwashing, because they distract from the only thing anyone concerned by climate should even hint at. Existentially delicense and oil major.
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
To be clear, everything claimed to be climate adjacent, such as renewables and carbon capture removal, are greenwashing, because they distract from the only thing anyone concerned by climate should even hint at. Existentially delicense and oil major.
The way to convert the USof$ into the USofUS is to existentially delicense an oil major.
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The way to convert the USof$ into the USofUS is to existentially delicense an oil major.