I'm sorry but most of people's complaints about "abundance" just seem to be an allergy to branded messaging to broad audiences, a thing that actually is necessary for spreading ideas widely.
As far as I can tell if you want more houses, transit, & industrial production, you should be for it
As far as I can tell if you want more houses, transit, & industrial production, you should be for it
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It wouldn't work in America, obviously, but one of the old slogans of British Labour was "Beer and Skittles!"
Need something along those lines to cut through and get to the heart of what practical people are asking for.
(also I'm not sure exactly who's doing what with "abundance," I am only hearing the complaints)
I just don't like that people who dislike those columnists are being negatively polarized against the whole concept
EA, not an absurd notion on its head.
What the EA community actually became...
I was wrong. I was just being a snob.
I've filed my resistlib cringe apology form. Don't repeat my mistakes
"Just Build Stuff" (who cares what stuff) has been a VC shibboleth forever, especially in the a16z-ish crowd which is big into crypto and "defense" tech
My only MAGA family members call me a Communist now
Abundance is good, it's good to have enough for everyone!
Do you know anyone who goes around saying "I wish I had abundance"--- ?
I don't (and I live in Connecticut😂)
Get real.
Address needs.
In as much as left-NIMBY types in SF and other places use affordable housing requirements to kill any housing whatsoever, you are right, they're against that.
But the YIMBY/abundance people all often are fine with lots of below market rate housing
Right now the way affordable housing requirements are used in practice is to stop ANY housing from actually getting built
If building more housing doesn't reduce housing costs, why does destroying housing increase it?
I think you need a "fell for it again" award
The fact that he is using the same (not common) word as Klein, who is promising a liberalism that creates abundance also based on nothing, is notable.
Even if not, I think we should be cautious about messages that work well for BS!