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Solving a disease like cancer as justification for everything else seems like not a great trade off. I don’t say that to dismiss those who have lost people to cancer. But the technology just is being utilized in so many harmful ways and the things it enables: job loss, surveillance, misinformation, just feel like problems that aren’t worth it. Have we even heard of a solved diseases? If anything haven’t we heard that ai will make even worse bio warfare?
After taxes probably looking at closer to 900K. After paying off a 30 year mortgage, probably left with 500k? For simple math let’s say I 400k over 40 years that’s 10k left over per year to cover food and all the necessities of life. They’re living on a knifes edge and an inevitable emergency completely derails them.
The crux of it is that more and more education is being eroded and the education we do get is funneled through the lens of what’s profitable. Americans critical thinking ability is being eroded. And we all know the systemic issues that cause this.
Everything should be de facto illegal and companies should have to prove that it should be made legal through research and data.
Things will move much slower but at this point I’d rather that than another Uber airbnb who “disrupts” the market but actually causes many negative externalities.
Real estate is investment and no one ever wants their investments to devalue. And the only way to slow stop or even decrease housing is to devalue it by building beyond what’s needed. No investor will ever do that.
It is capitalism in its purest form. And no kind of free market will fix this issue.
There’s other reasons for demand side being the cause but immigration has got to be pretty far down on that list.