cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28150055

[Alt-text] Pikachu Ezra Klein asks Slow King Schumer to “Incrementally improve society by deregulate housing.”

Slow King Schumer says, “I’ll ask the boss.”

Spoink Bill Ackman says, “I’ll pay you a million dollars to never do that.”

Slow King Schumer says, “I’m so aroused.”

Slow King Schumer says, “No.”

Pikachu Ezra Klein has a surprised pikachu face.

  • arudesalad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    Changing zoning laws to allow housing near commercial stuff would probably help and count as deregulation I think?

      • arudesalad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        4 days ago

        (Almost) the rest of the world also does this, it creates a lot less problems than the zoning laws in most of the USA

        • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          4 days ago

          deregulation in Texas always leads to worse quality of life. Everyone who runs things in this state since the 90’s will take things too far, and leave the mess for the public to live with. I’m sure it works great elsewhere, but here you’ll have chemical manufacturerers dumping waste into middle school playgrounds and the state government passing laws to protect the business owners from lawsuits.

          This one is just one I personally remember reading about, there are many more such cases

          https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/09/southeast-dallas-shingle-mountain-environmental-racism/

          tl;dr: roofing company bought a random lot in a neighborhood and used it as a dumping ground for years and it was all perfectly legal because of Dallas’s deregulation.