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Low-Medical t1_j4ysdrn wrote

Reply to comment by Mountain_Bill5743 in Why are they only producing luxury eggs?? by jakejanobs

Wait, so in this sub do people just downvote stuff they disagree with? I thought downvotes were for low effort posts or posts that don’t contribute to the discussion

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MightBe_YourDad t1_j51sjj3 wrote

There ya go sport... I brought ua back up to 0. lol. It's the age old law of human nature... give a little bit of power to those that have never had it and they will surely abuse it.

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Mountain_Bill5743 t1_j4z08r3 wrote

Thanks, pal. The post was marked "discussion" and thematically about analogies with eggs, so I stuck to that. OP seems to have good intentions, but the tone of this post just felt more divisive than constructive.

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ProvBroker t1_j5ah3t0 wrote

I think that your contribution was just low quality which is why people downvoted you into oblivion. The post responding to you was perhaps rude at the end, but it was addressing your exact points.

You claimed that people were oversimplifying models, and that “none of these factors are accounted for”. They are actually standard considerations in urban planning and development, and those factors have been examined and debated at length for not only the purposes of this project, but for the community’s intentions w/ development more broadly. If you’re tapped into the scene, these topics are low hanging fruit and generally a waste of time to discuss. This city’s journey forward has been completely mired by people who are brand new to the issues and interject with what they believe are original thoughts in the matter, when they’re hardly the first to consider these things. All it does is force the conversation back to an unproductive point.

It’s frustrating to have to constantly talk about Airbnb activity being a primary economic consideration for any/every development when it actually hardly matters in the context. Or worse, the suggestion that another major factor to consider is whether or not the wealthy are utilizing “vacancy write offs”, which literally do not exist… Where does this idea even come from? It betrays a complete lack of understanding of how any of this works.

The post isn’t divisive in any political or personal sense, it’s divisive in the sense that you can immediately tell who in the thread has no idea what they’re talking about.

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