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Hud stopped homes from coming to market artificially inflating prices.
THEN they gave people renters taxes to compete with them for HIGH END rentals (Section 8)
Darth Powell • Tweet
First, the notion that everyone starts off in the race of life with equal opportunities is illusory. Second, after a while, a meritocracy gives rise to a new elite, who carefully shut the door on those coming up behind them.
Paul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
The difference principle is concerned with the structural inequalities that affect the life prospects of different social groups—those that result from the way we organize our social and economic institutions—rather than inequalities that inevitably arise as people make choices and go about their lives.[58] It requires no more interference than any
... See moreDaniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren.” Hoarding was thus akin to thieving the public:
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Network Effects
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
“Is the playing field on which I accumulated my wealth level and fair? Does the system privilege people like me in ways that compound my advantages?” Were the rich, as Carnegie had presented them, the transitory guardians of progress’s fruits, or were they hereditary hoarders of that progress?