Deregulation will surely help the housing crisis 🤡

The only way for libertarianism to work is if every human had only good intentions. Since that’s simply never going to happen libertarianism will never work. Just my opinion feel free to disagree.

Zoning for single-family housing is regulation and is done to boost landlord profits at the expense of working people.

The mortgage-interest tax deduction only benefits wealthier households, while giving nothing to poorer households who rent.

There are many regulations that artificially funnel money upward and would be improved by "deregulating" those parts. Deregulation doesn't have to mean removing safety procedures.

If the states and cities legalized dense housing then much poverty would be relieved.

The difference is that they think that gatekeeping poor people from services in order to bring costs down for everyone else is valid. I've seen libertarians argue that the solution to tuition and healthcare being expensive is to stop helping poor people, because that will drive demand down and lower prices for people who can already afford it. I've seen libertarians argue that the solution to people scalping groceries is to let grocery stores price gouge. Their solutions only ever involve helping people who don't need help at the expense of people who do. Libertarianism is "me, me, me right now now now" dressed up in fancy language. It's the political philosophy of a tumor.

“We live in a society” - the jonkler

“Not if I can help it” - libertarians

As far as I can tell, the ones with money want a free hand to do whatever they want to others without repercussion, and the ones without money are willfully drinking the Kool Aid and being led around by the nose philosophically.

You ever hear a libertarian complain about flying? Fascinating one-person debate about airlines and deregulation.

Being Libertarian means never having to admit you’re a Republican

Typically they argue the government is the cause of the problems (which is frequently correct) and the solution is to remove regulations that create the inefficiencies (which rarely goes to plan and frequently involves enriching them).

It's clownish just for different reasons than the meme suggests.

Most "libertarians" are this dumb, but the old school ones at least attribute the problems to uneven regulation rigged in favor of the ruling class, which does jive with my understanding of what is wrong with the financial system. That being said, libertarianism wouldn't work even if they did get shit straight.

Believing Libertarians argue in good faith. 🤡

North America has never been a free market. Even since the days of Sumer have there been regulations on commerce. We will never have a free market.

How is it that free market's modus operandi seem to be attempting suicide every few years?

I've seen them claim that a natural monopoly cannot exist and that monopolies we see today are all enforced by government regulation.

i thought being a libertarian was cool when i was 20 and wanted to smoke weed but didn't know how to get any

I kept reading that as librarian

I’m sorry but anyone who thinks we’re actually in a free capitalist system is delusional. The freedom is a lie they sell us to perpetuate the system.

Zoning codes that restrict density are the opposite of a free market.

Am I missing something that makes the image 18+?

The same free market that would kill them for a Klondike bar? Sounds about right.

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Do you people actually think the housing market is a free market????? It's one of the most overly regulated markets! Zoning laws restrict what kind of housing can be built all over the US. Getting rid of those would allow for more mixed style housing and that is one example of de-regulation and making a freer market.

Remember, slavery was a free market solution.

The market isn't free, there's a ton of restrictions and policies that benefit large corporations while making it very difficult for new companies to make any headway against their competition

What else but regulations prevents the creation of surplus housing? That poverty as a feature post, why are those houses not been built?

It only takes a few people to solve the housing market in a liberal market by organizing the construction. With regulations, it takes a majority to make a change. The same majority who could rise taxes and build affordable housing with tax money right now.

There is land, unemployed people who can do the construction and people with income who seek housing and will pay for it. Who is preventing the construction?

Communists irl

The only problem communism has solved so far is obesity.

So central banks are printing money left and right, controlling the market winners, controlling interest rates, short and long ends of the yield curve, inflation, and my testicles, and you call it a "free" market?

Genuine question. Are you stupid genetically or did you learn being stupid from your environment like every teenager around here who don't understand shit in the economy?

Let's be honest there are areas that would benefit from less regulation.

(Looking at you housing!)