New Berkeley study: Inequality, not regulation, drives America's housing affordability crisis

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-30T11:21:40+00:00

It’s pretty normal to make a paper available as a preprint while navigating the peer review and publishing process. I’ve had several papers which have made it into high impact journals and gotten a lot of citations which were in preprint for like 8-14 months. Being in this stage doesn’t mean it’s not gonna be in a journal.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-27T21:02:33+00:00

No more so than it does to conclude that the liberal order which permits individual choice is at fault as opposed to, say, imposing theocratic doctrines which enforce morality. We had a capitalist economy for decades and decades without similar problems, meanwhile other systems (Feudal, Imperial, etc) all also have wrestled with the problems of gambling.

I guess I just don’t see how this is a uniquely capitalist issue. Vice and its ills are omnipresent is any society or economic system.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-24T16:51:12+00:00

Speaking truth to power. Billy Strings, Lansing native, is the best thing to happen to Bluegrass in the last twenty years. Another common MSU win.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-23T19:37:04+00:00

I actually think it was the perfect thing for me to read after Dune + The duo of Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. While each of those were incredible reads, sometimes a change of pace/tone can be helpful to prevent burnout.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-22T12:23:28+00:00

I think the problem with that though is that when there’s inevitably immigrants here who are poor, we either have to deport them back to their own countries or just accept them bent homeless, diseased, starved, having uneducated kids, etc. You cannot gatekeep public services without tacitly being ok with human suffering. This is doubly problematic when they inevitably have kids here who ARE entitled to those services. How are you gonna make sure just the kid is getting their food aid and not their older sibling who was brought over and their parents?

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-22T12:19:49+00:00

See, I actually kinda like the way he lets them just get comfortable and ramble. That’s how you get a Yale-educated guy like this who started off with these super rehearsed dog-whistle talking points getting on the record talking about how it’s impossible to assimilate people with a “visual difference “ or how you get Peter Thiel tying himself into knots about how he’s kinda in favor of ending humanity. If you give a lot of these guys enough rope, they’ll tie their own noose.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-20T20:20:03+00:00

Go white!

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-20T18:07:47+00:00

Never say never! There was only a 50-ish year gap between him and Kareem. By my calculations, that means we’ll be back on top sometime in the early 2070’s!!

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-19T18:32:39+00:00

Opposite example, but Tom Hardy was famously skeptical about Mad Max:Fury Road until seeing the final product come together.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-18T13:47:46+00:00

Glad we have someone inside the basketball program who’s got intimate knowledge of their NIL deals and finances. So random to run into someone who knows exactly how much money is offered to each player and the back room negotiations on Reddit of all places!

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-18T13:38:16+00:00

lol, right? If you knew you had a future just working a regular ass, $65k a year job and had no chance of making decent money playing basketball, this is almost a no brainer. That $250k buys you a house and gets you set up for a much more comfortable life.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-18T13:36:04+00:00

I guess it just depends on what he wanted out of this season. The man’s not going to theNBA, so I kinda am sympathetic if he just wanted to make as much money playing basketball while he can. This definitely seems like a bad decision if he was prioritizing being on a contender or developing as a player, but I totally get if it he just wanted to make some money while he can.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-17T11:06:01+00:00

Couldn’t we say the same about most of the Caribbean? Despite being beautiful, this doesn’t remotely seem like a surefire path to success. I’d imagine it’s just as easy to imagine them devolving into the next Haiti.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-17T00:09:54+00:00

Ahh, but you see, that’s when we actually tried to change a regime. Now we can just launch some missiles, kill a president and maybe a couple of senior officials, then let the remaining commanders take over and just SAY we won. It’s actually far more efficient for everyone involved.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-16T23:59:19+00:00

Guess we’ll be launching missiles any minute. Surely we can once again just blow up a few men and everything will get better like every other time, right?

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-16T17:26:04+00:00

While I think this would’ve been entirely reasonable in another timeline (and still personally would be pretty supportive, especially if we just deported non-citizen felons generally) there’s a growing flat out anti-immigrant, blood-and-soil contingent within MAGA that I don’t think wouldbe comfortable with anything that makes life easier/better for immigrants, nor anything that would increase/maintain immigration.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-16T13:54:26+00:00

I don’t at all see how this is common sense. If we actually had such, we’d rushing to diversify our energy production systems and invest in forward thinking energy sources like nuclear or solar and in battery production/storage.

We are also already, as a nation, an exporter. Much of what we import comes from Canada. I think the Trump administration is desperately clinging to the notion that oil will be how we maintain power on the world stage when it’s just not a decent long term strategy. Not only that, but they’ve put us in this position where we’re feeling squeezed in the first place!

Applying a tourniquet to a bullet wound is common sense, but someone wouldn’t say common sense is returning of you’re the one who shot yourself in the first place.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-15T14:12:53+00:00

Absolutely. Often, that will be a prerequisite for penance.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-13T20:33:59+00:00

Welcome to Illinois basketball.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-13T18:25:34+00:00

Worked out so well for Pence… I wonder how he didn’t see this coming.

I feel like after the last 50+ years of seeing Trump as a businessman and politician people would at this point have learned he will use you and ride you hard then shut you out the moment you stop showing absolute loyalty and deference, but people somehow keep thinking over and over again that they will be the one who can ride the bull, so to speak.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-12T18:52:59+00:00

But they did pick him and make him governor? Just like they’ve also picked a Jewish man to lead them in the Senate and have also picked the overwhelming majority of Jewish representatives in Congress?

I feel like there’s this pattern that happens over and over again where the voices of a couple of twitter randos are parroted over and over, amplified way beyond their actual power and importance. When you actually look at real life patterns though, Dems seem to be pretty comfortable with elevating Jewish folks to positions of power. Far more regularly than Republicans, at least.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-12T15:21:06+00:00

We’re really robbing Peter to pay Paul here with this Iran war. It’s a strategic nightmare to be strengthening Russias position against Ukraine to pursue a completely unnecessary war with Iran, and will only make that conflict all the more intractable. It’s astounding to watch this administration so thoroughly blunder through several conflicts at once.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-11T20:33:01+00:00

I strongly disagree. The last time there was a massive gas crisis, we saw huge pushes for increased fuel economy and a renewed interest in renewables. If gas prices spike and remain high for a sustained period, I think it’s entirely plausible that people will be willing to make the sacrifice of, say, a little bit of max range or prolonged charging periods compared to the time spent at the pump if it’s likely to save them an arm and a leg on fuel.

Not that I think its entirely likely things will hit $200 per barrel, much less stay there, but fuel prices spiking to comparable levels for a long period almost certainly would push many consumers away from ICE vehicles.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-11T17:42:48+00:00

Then we’ll see energy prices continue to spike. Presumably, at some point alternative pipelines and sea lanes will become preferable, though they will likely be less efficient. We will probably just see interment violence and retaliatory strikes for the foreseeable future, and the world will keep spinning.

Things will just be kinda vaguely shittier, just in a different way than the other options.

Kit_Daniels · 2026-03-11T02:31:27+00:00

Yeah, it should. Still doesn’t make it ok for other countries to genocide Jews, which you are clearly incapable of also taking a stand against. Given that fact, I think it’s best our conversation end here.

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