04-01-2024, 10:53 PM
vision63 wrote:
[quote=mrbigstuff]
it is *not* full. hardly. but I agree with everything else you wrote.
how to overcome that? it's not what used to happen. we used to welcome the influx as we had jobs for people. now, most of our jobs don't necessarily produce a "product" but rather satisfy a "service," hence the service economy. yet, we still do produce lots and CA is the farm for the country.
there are lots of permutations of the "answer" to this question, and none are entirely correct or incorrect. we have to do all of it, and then some. we have to win the population game, it's how we will survive as a nation and a collection of people from disparate backgrounds.
It's full where I circled. Unless you can build on top of mountains or water. YIMBYs want to build towers to the sun. But they don't care who lives in them. Some people don't want that. They don't care who doesn't has housing.
We don't "have" to survive as a nation. We can fail. This country will mess around and elect Condors to run it. Everything will become carrion based.
you know how the saying goes, "carrion my wayward son, there'll be peace when you are done."