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Sorry what? Shelter is a necessity for survival.

Is it communism to not allow people to buy up all the water supplies and sell it back to you at an extortionate rate?

The truth about the housing market is that it's not a free market anyway it's controlled by special interests, bad laws, zoning, local nimbys and councils the list goes on.

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Shelter is a necessity but lots of people think they’re entitled to live wherever they want at a price they can afford. They go to SF or NY and complain about rents when there is a whole country they can live in.

I don’t think communities have to allow higher density and the lower quality of life that comes with it. Desirable places are going to be expensive and that’s okay.

Personally I think if we have better rail, people can live in a wider range of places but still access jobs. You see this in Europe, and it lets smaller communities keep their way of life.

Lots of employers think they're entitled to in-office days when remote work suffices. Argument would be stronger if there were a whole country to do all work in.

There is available work in many places. But I do think many want to only do certain kinds of jobs, get paid a certain amount, and live wherever they want. That feels more like entitlement to me. For example many college educated adults look down on trade jobs and want a desk job in whatever field they studied in a coastal urban city. But that’s not reasonable.

Non sequitur. Read carefully, there isn't all work in all places. It's not about how much it pays. It's the demand to come to an office in "a coastal urban city" to work when the work can be completed elsewhere. It seems you not only want to deter people from living in desirable places, but also want to deter people from working in jobs they were trained for for no reason at all.

Yes, actually, that is communism and it's awesome.

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