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Originally Posted by badrunner
In a free market, customer preferences matter. Local demand is mostly for SFHs with space and privacy.
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Free market is very local-culture dependent, then...
When I think about it, I believe if Paris was a total free market, it would look like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, those brand new towns grown out of nothing but oil in the middle of a sorry desert in the Arabian Peninsula.
We'd have destroyed 3 quarters of the city to accommodate people in bland, wannabe shiny skyscrapers, then people in the world would call us criminal douches and would despise us even more than they already do.
The free market hates regulations and always tends to push them backward, sometimes rightfully.
But it has to be democratically regulated and balanced anyway. Otherwise it goes fucked up and ugly like chaos.
Would you live in Dubai? Maybe you'd stay there for a couple of weeks, but you'd quickly find it soulless, soul-sucking and dangerously ugly.
I mean, even their luxury skyscrapers look like errors.