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Could Vienna’s approach to affordable housing work in California?
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<blockquote data-quote="ThatRobGuy" data-source="post: 77667023" data-attributes="member: 123415"><p>I'd grant that premise...</p><p></p><p>But I think my underlying point still stands, if we were to adopt the Nordic model for education, there'd be some aspects of that that the progressive left who tout the model, would undoubtedly not like a whole lot.</p><p></p><p>The main one being, that they tailor their quotas to market demand, which means that if they estimate that there will only be X number of job openings in the fields of fine arts and journalism, they're not going to pay for X times 10 number of people to go study those things in terms of public investments.</p><p></p><p>People tend to overestimate how much their "passion" is worth to a functioning society. (and also tend to overestimate how good they are at it)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"If we just did things like <insert European country here> everything would be so much better" only applies when we're taking the things that are both good, and more challenging.</p><p></p><p>There's no functioning society on the planet that can guarantee housing, food, luxuries, etc... to everyone on the sole basis of what they claim to be passionate about or what they think is "fun". That's just the harsh reality.</p><p></p><p>If that were the case, the world would be full of "video game analysts" and "pizza taste testers", because nobody would mop up after a toilet overflowed if everyone was guaranteed housing and necessities to "pursue their passion".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThatRobGuy, post: 77667023, member: 123415"] I'd grant that premise... But I think my underlying point still stands, if we were to adopt the Nordic model for education, there'd be some aspects of that that the progressive left who tout the model, would undoubtedly not like a whole lot. The main one being, that they tailor their quotas to market demand, which means that if they estimate that there will only be X number of job openings in the fields of fine arts and journalism, they're not going to pay for X times 10 number of people to go study those things in terms of public investments. People tend to overestimate how much their "passion" is worth to a functioning society. (and also tend to overestimate how good they are at it) "If we just did things like <insert European country here> everything would be so much better" only applies when we're taking the things that are both good, and more challenging. There's no functioning society on the planet that can guarantee housing, food, luxuries, etc... to everyone on the sole basis of what they claim to be passionate about or what they think is "fun". That's just the harsh reality. If that were the case, the world would be full of "video game analysts" and "pizza taste testers", because nobody would mop up after a toilet overflowed if everyone was guaranteed housing and necessities to "pursue their passion". [/QUOTE]
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