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wnc3141today at 1:28 AM2 repliesview on HN

I've come to realize what we think as progressive places are what I consider "inclusively conservative" as in liberal socially, but very much bound to keeping wealth strata in place.

San Francisco + older bay area cities are a prime example of being a bastion of free market capitalism in the guise of progressivism.


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orangecattoday at 2:31 AM

San Francisco + older bay area cities are a prime example of being a bastion of free market capitalism in the guise of progressivism.

The main reason SF is unaffordable is that the city government forbids people from building housing, which is the exact opposite of a free market.

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