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Which is... And I think at the root of making housing widely available is that. Making sure that people can build as much of it as possible.
Which is a great idea because oftentimes with something like the internet, which is basically a utility now, there isn't a profit incentive for a private company to build it on their own out to areas like that because it just simply won't have enough users to be profitable.
Which is a great idea because oftentimes with something like the internet, which is basically a utility now, there isn't a profit incentive for a private company to build it on their own out to areas like that because it just simply won't have enough users to be profitable.
Which is a great idea because oftentimes with something like the internet, which is basically a utility now, there isn't a profit incentive for a private company to build it on their own out to areas like that because it just simply won't have enough users to be profitable.
And stuff like the postal service. These are the type of things that the government is really good at providing and should provide because without the government providing it, the market would never do it.
And stuff like the postal service. These are the type of things that the government is really good at providing and should provide because without the government providing it, the market would never do it.
And stuff like the postal service. These are the type of things that the government is really good at providing and should provide because without the government providing it, the market would never do it.
Well, I think it, yeah, I think that's part of it is like the expectations for the speed of these things has definitely shifted, right? The idea that these can happen, things can happen in like short periods of time is pretty, it's, you don't expect things to.
Well, I think it, yeah, I think that's part of it is like the expectations for the speed of these things has definitely shifted, right? The idea that these can happen, things can happen in like short periods of time is pretty, it's, you don't expect things to.
Well, I think it, yeah, I think that's part of it is like the expectations for the speed of these things has definitely shifted, right? The idea that these can happen, things can happen in like short periods of time is pretty, it's, you don't expect things to.
I think it cites a story about how after there was like a devastating fire under one of the big highways in Pennsylvania, the governor used like basically emergency powers to push through a bunch of the rebuild of the highway that would typically be expected to take like a few years. And didn't it take like- 14 days. Yeah, it took two weeks. It took two weeks. I want to re-emphasize this.
I think it cites a story about how after there was like a devastating fire under one of the big highways in Pennsylvania, the governor used like basically emergency powers to push through a bunch of the rebuild of the highway that would typically be expected to take like a few years. And didn't it take like- 14 days. Yeah, it took two weeks. It took two weeks. I want to re-emphasize this.
I think it cites a story about how after there was like a devastating fire under one of the big highways in Pennsylvania, the governor used like basically emergency powers to push through a bunch of the rebuild of the highway that would typically be expected to take like a few years. And didn't it take like- 14 days. Yeah, it took two weeks. It took two weeks. I want to re-emphasize this.
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And it's not that, like you said, it's not that these things, we are able to build. They don't have good intentions behind them. Like the book spends a lot of time building the context behind like why a lot of these regulations exist at all. It spends a lot of time explaining like the buildup of like the modern environmental movement and how like a lot of places within the U S uh,
And it's not that, like you said, it's not that these things, we are able to build. They don't have good intentions behind them. Like the book spends a lot of time building the context behind like why a lot of these regulations exist at all. It spends a lot of time explaining like the buildup of like the modern environmental movement and how like a lot of places within the U S uh,
And it's not that, like you said, it's not that these things, we are able to build. They don't have good intentions behind them. Like the book spends a lot of time building the context behind like why a lot of these regulations exist at all. It spends a lot of time explaining like the buildup of like the modern environmental movement and how like a lot of places within the U S uh,
were getting basically soiled by the costs of manufacturing and the way we treated water and the way we treated the land, right? And there used to be a lot more pollution in the country. And then we enacted environmental policy that helped push back against that. And I think it's important that the book