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The best way to produce affordable housing is to follow Tokyo’s example and embrace YIMBY growth

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🔍  Argument Trees ✅  Top Reasons to Agree Tokyo built housing at scale through permissive zoning, keeping it significantly more affordable than comparable global cities despite similar demand pressures. Supply restrictions are the primary driver of unaffordability - when we restrict housing supply through zoning, prices inevitably rise, harming precisely the young and lower-income people progressives claim to champion. Democratic-controlled cities (San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Boston) have the nation's worst affordability despite decades of progressive rhetoric about helping working families - they protect wealthy homeowners' property values through exclusionary zoning while claiming to support equity. Red states like Texas and Florida, with less restrictive zoning, actually deliver more affordable housing and economic mobility for young families than California or Massachusetts - exposing the policy failure of cosmopolitan liberalism. Kamala Harris's housing plan explicitl...

Replacing Power with Process

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We have a massive problem with our political system. It is built around doing whatever the person at the top wants. If you can climb high enough, you get to dictate the future of the planet. People say the main problem is evil people at the top who abuse kids. We must elect someone new, clean the swamp, and release the Epstein files. No? The guy at the top changes his mind? Never mind. When Republicans are in charge, they go after Democrats. When Democrats take over, they do the same in return. This is not justice or accountability. It is revenge. It is not democracy. It is tribal warfare disguised as governance. When Trump tried to stop the transfer of power, gathered a mob, and told them the election was stolen, people called that a problem. Yet the response was not to fix the system that allowed it, but to fire individuals. That misses the point. Firing people does not fix a structure that rewards loyalty over evidence. Our political system is built around teams. Each team has its p...

Business and Politics

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Business  > Business and Politics “ I'll keep it short and sweet:  family ,  religion , and  friendship . These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in  business .”  Montgomery Burns "When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."  William Wrigley Jr. Trump, Musk, and Doge focused on the wrong parts of 'making government run like a business.'   ✅  Top Reasons to Agree They destroyed agencies they didn’t understand, mistaking disruption for efficiency. Markets work because inefficient businesses eventually fail — but in government, regulation and oversight exist to prevent destructive failures. Running government like a business does not mean bringing in “your team” to arbitrarily cut what you dislike. It means defining transparent, objective criteria to measure whether agencies are meeting public needs. They repeated the worst mistake of bureaucrats throughout history: assuming that power alone gav...