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> My solution would be to jack up the real estate inheritance tax and allocate that money for public transportation and affordable housing.

In Silicon Valley product management there's the saying 'for every yes, there's a thousand no's."

In housing politics for every good idea, there's 100k people who will complain and sue.

The only policies implemented usually fall under the following categories

1) Irrational populism.

2) A backroom deal pushed by lobbyists and their political allies.

Sensible ideas usually don't fall into those categories.



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