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LargeWu08/01/20252 repliesview on HN

It's dogmatic among the left that "market based solutions are bad". And because Abundance embraces market solutions, it must therefore be bad too.

Basically, all the arguments I've seen against Abundance tend either towards the ideological, or irrelevant. I tend to see very little empirical arguments.


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davidw08/01/2025

Tons of the critics of the book haven't even read it, because large portions of it are about making the government work better, not just using market-based solutions for all our problems.

Housing, though, could definitely use a better market with less constraints like zoning.

antifa08/02/2025

No, the problem is when the markets are freer than the people.

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