If we had let enough housing be built in Denver to keep rents stable, many fewer people would be falling into homelessness in the first place. A key part of the long term solution to homelessness is allowing far more housing to be built in the region.

I am so straight I have never had an opinion on the aesthetic value of anything except buxom women.

Yeah if I recall correctly potatoes were able to deliver calories in weather and situations where grains could not thrive, in effect enabling meaningfully more population growth in Europe.

I know they had a terrible slow order after a derailment along a long freeway running section that basically every line uses. I believe it increased trip length by like 10-20 minutes. I wonder if that is part of the reason?

That wasn’t how it worked in Bozeman.

Note I said building _enough_ luxury housing.

Building enough luxury housing lowers prices: montanafreepress.org/2025/06/23/h...

If I dug them up, I could find at least 5 recent peer reviewed papers showing supply increases lower prices. How many can you find showing the opposite?

We were too young to care much about prosperity/politics. To contrast childhood years in the 70s and early 80s,I’d bring up more freedom for kids to roam around, being bullied as an unremarkable part of junior high school, “gay” and “retard” as the top 2 insults. But politics was the next decade.

The late 80s and then Clinton & the 90s were the politically formative experience for Gen X. It was a pretty good decade overall for the US. Peace, prosperity, no pandemic, no financial crisis. Probably encouraged us to believe the system can work, relative to prior or subsequent generations.

I have no doubt that software tells airlines to raise prices on less competitive routes, but the problem there is the lack of competition, not the software. I think that probably applies to apartment rentals too.