• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    People vote left wing

    Left wing policies make city better

    Better city attracts more people

    More people increases costs

    Increased costs filter for rich people

    Rich people vote authoritarian.

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      8 months ago

      And to be clear, they vote authoritarian because they are the authoritarians. In a capitalistic society money is authority. Those with money rule.

      People assume rich people are voting against their self interests somehow, but they’re not. Money serves them and allows them to be exempt from most of the laws and rules.

      They vote on laws that let them keep and make more money, at the expense of you not making as much. Then they use that wealth and influence to do it more.

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      8 months ago

      You skipped the essential NIMBY step between these two:

      Better city attracts more people

      More people increases costs

      Costs scale way out of proportion with population because of artificial constraints imposed by those lucky enough to be here first.

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        8 months ago

        Worth noting that constraints aren’t 100% artificial in SF, just mostly artificial. It, like Helsinki, is situated on a peninsula and is part of a metropolitan area, so expansion isn’t really an option. Intentional NIMBY constraints make it so much worse.