You keep trying to distance yourself from free-market ideology while repeating its core tenets.
I’m not scared of money like you are.
Saying "stop making housing illegal" is just a rebranded way of saying "deregulate and let the market build," which is the abundance/free market argument, whether you want to say the words or not.
This isn’t the free market. It’s literally not letting NIMBY’s dictate housing demands with specious personal concerns.
Corporate lobbying, billionaire-funded think tanks, campaign donations, corporate media narratives, and regulatory capture are exactly why housing is unaffordable,
Son, if its illegal to build apartments, who do you think benefits from that?
why labor protections are toothless, and why bold policies die before they get a vote. Ignoring that doesn't make it go away,
This isn’t some everything-bagel of policy. Stop trying to project all of your pet issues onto literal housing.
I bet you dont even know the one-staircase controversy…
Do we need apartment buildings to have two staircases?
www.vox.com
it just reveals how unserious you are about power. Billionaire power shapes the playing field, and not in favor of working people.
In fact, this preoccupation is why Zephyr Teachout got stomped in this debate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/...dcast-saikat-chakrabarti-zephyr-teachout.html
No one claimed inventing Google caused labor exploitation, but Google (and tech giants broadly) do spend massive sums of money lobbying against labor protections, gig worker rights, unionization efforts, and so on. So yes, Sergey Brin's empire does have something to do with labor protections now.
Thats irrelevant to this discussion.
Saying "just enforce existing laws" is hand-waving. Enforce them with what? The agencies gutted by the same corporate influence you refuse to name? You talk about solutions but duck every power structure standing in the way.
Sergey Brin is not the San Francisco city council or state assembly that stopped housing reforms by listening to NIMBYs.
Still, the market won't "work itself out." We've tried that. The outcomes were skyrocketing rents, worker precarity, and billionaires deciding housing policy. If that's your idea of abundance, then it's abundance for landlords, not for working people. And that's why it will fail... again.
Doubling down on failure is religious dedication. You have nothing to show for it.
thankfully, people are ignoring you and we will crush your dissent into dust as we chart a path forward.