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cousin_ityesterday at 2:16 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah. I like how Kat Woods phrased it: "You can give the slowest child sprinting lessons, but there are still nine chairs."


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apitoday at 1:34 AM

They really do this. They give subsidies to people to be able to afford homes when there’s insufficient supply.

Huge surprise: it makes prices go up. More money chasing the same goods.

We will do literally anything to fix housing shortages but build housing.

Of course now we’ve decided to start dumb penis length measuring contest trade wars with our main suppliers of raw building materials. That will help.