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  • No.

    Do you think the reason there is a housing shortage is because there isn’t enough houses?

    Listen I know that SEEMS logical, but it isn’t in this case.

    The reason for the housing shortage in America isn’t because there isn’t enough houses to go around.

    To understand the housing crisis you have to understand how investments work. Investment and financial institutions are allowed to purchase homes for investment reasons. There is no limit to their greed. They buy out entire neighborhoods and artificially keep surrounding prices high. This props up the rest of the market. It keeps rental prices high and it keeps home purchases high.

    The reason building new homes doesn’t work is because these investment firms will gobble up these homes. They won’t go to the people you want them to go to. This will only make the problem worse.

    If you want affordable housing you need to go after the investment firms. Take away their ability to buy homes for the sake of “investing”. They are single handedly the reason for the insane home prices and nothing will change as long as they are allowed to sit on empty homes for eternity.

    Let me come at you in a slightly different angle. There is a massive amount of empty homes in the USA. These empty homes are owned by the investment firms, not to sell or rent out, but to keep prices artificially high. The point is the homes are there. We don’t need more. We just need to pry them out of the hands of the monopolies. More empty homes won’t solve this problem. Removing investments from this will solve the problem.















  • Enshitification is when a company’s quality decreases in favor of pocketing more money. It’s about greed and projecting the illusion you’re growing as a company. Shareholders like growth. This is exactly what intel is doing.

    They cant pocket more money by selling their existing product for more money, as people won’t pay for it and profits will decrease.

    They can’t pocket more money by selling a better product as that costs money in itself and won’t guarantee the return you’re looking for.

    The only other play is to slim down your existing product and pray no one notices.

    Intel chose the last option.

    And it doesn’t necessarily have to be about pocketing extra money. Lots of companies took a big hit because of Covid and interest rates. Lots of companies that were profitable are now in the red because of interest rates. Supply chain issues also had a strong impact on company growth and profitability. So in desperate attempt to stay “profitable” some companies elect to decrease quality to save money as there is no other way to produce additional profit to keep going.

    If you make your product worse over time and it’s at the expense of your customers, then you’re effectively enshitifying.