1. I think if you look into empirical work done you’ll find that there is a causal relationship between housing prices and homelessness. 2. Afaik couch surfing because you can’t afford to rent *is* a type of homelessness, just not visible
/chronic homelessness.

I think my big issue with it is that it was clearly written by someone raised prot. the movie feels completely inauthentic wrt what a parish is like or what a conservative catholic priest is like. I consequently couldn’t really suspend my disbelief and enjoy the plot

How did a bunch of men all convince themselves that Tariff Otaku would actually be better for the economy and give them all free stimulus checks unlike that shrill nagging bitch Kamala Harris it is a mystery

Sprawl is subsidized to a huge extent, directly funded by urban cores through massive infrastructure costs, but also indirectly through things like roads in cities that privilege suburban commuters while limiting space for local urban residents. I’m skeptical of downplaying the role of policy here.

the truly forbidden take is that the vibecession and by extension basically all negative economic sentiment since 2008 is probably just the middle class being jealous of their rich friends and not actual economic strife (outside of stuff like housing costs in cities)

The way I think about it, especially with tech, is that they are trying to get ahead of an emerging consensus that their products are addictive/destructive by destroying the state incentive/capacity to regulate them. Basically as if Big Tobacco did a coup once it became clear cigs cause cancer.

It’s odd to me how absolutist folks get about practical issues. Was USAID also an imperialist soft power tool? 100%. Did kicking it over with no replacement plan result in millions of deaths nobody seems to care about, also 100%.

Sometimes good gets done for selfish reasons.