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Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom (www.businessinsider.com)
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Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom::Zoom CEO Eric Yuan discussed the benefits of in-person work in a leaked meeting.

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[+] -30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The real estate market is in shit because it is already heavily regulated.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Yes... heavily regulated... thats why an entire generation of people live with their parents because housing costs are many orders of magnitude too expensive for them to afford. Yup. That's a clear sign that the government is putting heavy regulations on the cost and distribution of real estate.

    I'm sorry, but the very premise that in our present society real estate is even lightly regulated is utterly ridiculous on its face value. As is the concept that deregulation will make housing affordable. Letting landlords and capitalists do whatever they want with all property will somehow make property cheaper? People motivated solely by profit will make everything cheaper? No, they will continue to sell property at increased costs so they can increase their profits as they always have.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Regulation doesn’t automatically mean better.

    You can make regulations that benefit large real estate corporations and that’s still regulation.

    We have a lot of that in the parts of US. There are rules encouraging landlords to keep high rental rates bc if they lowered it, they’d have to offer that to other renters as well. Many landlords choose to have empty rooms and keep that high rental rate.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You have no clue what zoning does to buildability, do you.

    Hint: insane ass zoning rules are government regulations. You really want revised government regulations.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Zoning is not federal in US

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And way up this thread was referring to localized laws. And you can force certain changes at higher levels, just gotta be prepared for the lawsuit that follows. State of NJ having a huge issue with affordable housing, and Fair Share basically taking a court ruling and running with it and essentially forcing towns to build, or else.

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  • [+] -11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    All people who think more gov controlling everything should do is look at places like Europe where it's basically impossible to build and family homes are generational things handed down and you live with your parents until they die and hand over the home to you

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "look at places like Europe" is the clearest signifier of someone who has never left the States ever in their life.

    In Europe, there are 50 countries, over 150 distinct cultures, wildly different economies and styles of government representing each country, and over 746 million people living within European borders. Of those 746 million, 70% own their own home, compared to 65% of US Americans. Your generalization is absolute nonsense and you should probably not respond so confidently with your opinion.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    ROFL, my family is from multiple countries in Europe. I've lived in there for multiple years and my wife is from there. I know all about it because I've lived it. You're a fool if you think people can just own homes or build houses there easily. The home ownership is handed down and most live with parents.

    Hell it's not hard to even find this shit out:

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/24/dependent-generation-half-young-european-adults-live-parents

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "Europe" isn't just London and Paris. I did some research on real estate in France and Spain recently and it's significantly cheaper over there if you aren't living in a major city. Even cheaper than the rural area in the US I currently live in.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No shit...this happens in small towns as well. I would know my family is from multiple countries in Europe.

    They're cheaper sure, but you also make far less than in the USA.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah you do, but the housing was way more affordable at the same time. You can still make good money in Europe depending on what you do. In the US your income also gets reduced by things like heath insurance that are much cheaper in the EU even including the taxes. And groceries are cheaper in Europe as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is literally why housing is so expensive. Local governments (or worse, federal), pass stifling legislation that prevents building, almost always due to localized pressure.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well, I don't know where you live and maybe in your country nothing is regulated, but I live in Europe and in most European countries there are excessive building regulations which prohibit new developments. This results in severe stock shortage. And shortage drives the prices up. That's just a fact.

    The whole problem is created by the government and they're the only ones responsible.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I live in Copenhagen, and there are new developments going up every day.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well, good for you.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "Stock shortage", lol. Not enough paper being printed causes prices to go up?

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you really that ignorant of the housing market? Zoning regulations are the #1 blocker for new housing being built. More regulation = less housing. Just think about it for half a second.

    Also, more housing = lower cost. Supply and demand, dude.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I'd argue it's more the homeowners themselves. They don't want high density housing built near them because it drives down the value of their house, so it doesn't get built. Voting records tell that story extremely well.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    You'd be wrong. Local homeowners don't vote on new construction. That's not how any of that works.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    You’re not wrong, but I feel like this is an over generalization. You’re right that the current housing shortage has been caused largely by local regulations. On the other hand, many state legislatures are realizing this fact and working to craft new regulations that loosen and supersede the local ones. E.G Oregon passed a law a few years ago that requires residential areas to be zoned for multi family units in cities over a certain size. I think that kind of law is going to be pretty important to getting the housing situation under control.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    That happens only in US. Well, you can say that US is more regulated that EU. And then think about it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    US is actually over regulated in general. It's just that their regulations are a result of corruption (they call it lobbying) and are tailored towards protecting monopolies and not consumers or competitors.

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