Comment on Can't afford California housing? Try living in a tiny sleeping pod. All 4 feet of it

• PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I seriously doubt that pod living is the solution anyone actually wanted, rather than a bandaid fix to a larger issue.

  Yeah, like all free market solutions. Because free market solutions aren’t designed to solve problems; rather, they’re necessarily designed to extract value from customers (or however you’d like to phrase making people pay for things).

  Imagine a private weapons development program: not that much innovative stuff that’s cost-effective and very efficient and funnels money into the hands of amoral CEOs who have no problem being the scourge of the earth. Way better, right?

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  • No1RivenFucker@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lmao if you genuinely believe the housing market there is anything resembling free, you’re just divorced from reality

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    • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you genuinely believe any market is free, then you’re further removed from reality than you think I am.

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      • No1RivenFucker@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Never said they were. You were the one talking up how the non-existent free markets are too blame for government created problems.

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    • PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A free market leads to lobbying the government for barriers to entry which creates monopolies.

      Landlords intentionally turned it from a “free market” to the shit show we have today.

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      • No1RivenFucker@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Jesus your mental gymnastics are insane if you think the free market is to blame for government intervention

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