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Journalist James Pogue on Political Principles and Cultivating Virtue | We All Must Go Into The Wilderness

The Daily Stoic

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The Next Affordable Place Is Already Too Expensive

i think people often blame one side or the other. But there's sierra pacific is the largest ia landowner in all the united states, and owns basically this whole nexus of counties here. So they just ruthlessly drive down wages. They cut privately on private land, with very little government oversight. The economy collapses, and then the house price is sore because people can come in, buy em cheap compared to the bay. And you basically make a subservient economy. You make two classes of people, the outsiders with money and the kind of locals who increasingly are alienated from each other. It feels like a true distopia.

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