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Property rights are amazing. You aren’t allowed to build what you want on your land but you are allowed to tell other people what they can’t do on their land, mutually assured deliberation.

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Given what an amazing impact this would have, do you believe those that support housing regulation are irrational, evil, or both? Why are the number of people that are irrational, evil, or both a big enough portion of the population to cause such damage? How many people do you think your comic book will convert from being irrational, evil, or both and why?

What are some successful examples of societies that have avoided this problem?

Myself, I'm probably MORE supportive of housing deregulation then you, but I'm extremely doubtful of the tactics your using.

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Do you think deregulation would lead to less car-centric city planning in America?

I recall that you considered it a sign over poverty that people went grocery shopping by bike in Europe. However, the reason that people bike more could be construction regulation. For demonstration, here is a video by a Canadian who moved to Amsterdam for its city planning and is rather happy about being able to bike to IKEA: https://youtu.be/CgvYgxo6UY8. In some of his other videos he explains that America has construction regulation that favors building car infrastructure. The real estate market in the Netherlands surely is overregulatedas well. Still, I wonder if the choice for bikes and public transport over cars is closer to what contractors would do if they had the freedom to choose. Will there be a chapter about this in the book?

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In Europe, as I understand it, there are stringent land use restrictions that limit low-density development much more than in the US where on average it's more laissez faire. Though deregulation in the US may lead to a moderate increase in average density and thus less car-driving, for the most part, the US has more 'sprawls' because it has more space; if anything, I would guess that Europe's lack of urban sprawl is more a product of artificial regulation than the presence of it is in the US. I'm pretty sure the guy who runs that youtube channel supports *increasing* land use regulation in the US in order to artificially increase urban living because he dislikes low density suburbs/exurbs etc. For better or worse, one would not get Amsterdam with laissez faire (note his channel has a video on how much he hates Houston, which happens to be the least regulated city in the US).

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With deregulation, should be much more small scale builders, and fewer big scale developers. A lot more decisions being made about 1 property and less "neighborhood" development. With that, I think we would see more compact development.

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