Unironically the answer is "shop less."

Prices on goods rise when demand for goods stays sufficient to support the price going up. The less everyone buys, the less things will cost.

Prices for goods have almost nothing to do with the price of rent, but the mechanisms there are the same - it's just that you have to encourage building rather than "live somewhere less" because the second option really isn't tenable, for obvious reasons.

If you want rent to come down, campaign for, vote for, or even run for office to be the candidate that will change zoning laws and encourage building multifamily housing.

Worth noting this ruling is explicitly based on statewide legislation, meaning this could be changed at any time, if the legislature cared at all.

You really do get exactly what you vote for.

Brave people push boundaries so that less brave people can read things in books.

Edit: I assume the people downvoting this obvious truth think I'm calling them cowards. I assure you I will be right there with you curled up reading books about caving. Fuck all that.

This article is awful for 3 reasons. Unfortunately each reason is one of the main hot takes the article tries and there is nothing redeeming otherwise - so maybe four reasons if you wanna get meta

1: Tyler Perry being decently-successful in media does not mean he owes people anything. More to the point, it is impossible to quantify what one person's success means to another. Even if they announce it at a speech, you've got no way to show a casual pattern.

2: It lumps in every tax break but completely ignores the localized benefits of those tax breaks. Georgia offers tax breaks to films because it makes them money.

The industry in Georgia was boosted substantially by tax incentives introduced in 2002 and strengthened in 2008. Just in the fiscal year 2017 film and TV production had an economic impact in Georgia of $9.5 billion, while industry sources claim that the tax subsidy costs the state $141 million (2010). (Wikipedia)

3: Perry, per the article's own admission, is giving substantially to the community in terms of pure charity

Perry earned plenty of glowing national headlines earlier this year for his philanthropy in donating $750,000 to help low-income seniors in Atlanta as property taxes increased.

Doesn't really make sense to paint him as the bad guy here by any of the angles the article tries to take.

I don't even care for Perry much, but this article is just misleading crap.

I get that he has to fight this, for political reasons, but this is the dumbest fucking rebuttal ever

What he’s targeting here is private citizens with no legislative purpose. I think it’s completely and totally inappropriate,” McConnell said at a press conference Tuesday

The Supreme Court is hardly your average citizen and Congress absolutely has reasons to investigate potential corrupt in the Supreme Court.

Sucks that he got to that point, but props for not going through with his plan.

There are going to be a lot of people saying how stupid this entire concept is in the comments.

Let me tell you something, as a person who spent years in finance. There's no fucking chance on Earth this happens. You will win the Powerball twice consecutively before Musk pulls this off.

None of this infrastructure exists in X and all of this infrastructure is exactly the kind of shit Musk hates. Automobile regulations are fucking nothing compared to financial regs.

Adoption aside, which you'd have to be fucking insane to adopt this platform as a payments platform, the regs alone will ensure this never, ever, materializes.

What Musk describes will someday exist. He will not be involved, and the day is well over a decade away.

This is "Kanye West running for President" level of stupidity. The people close to him have let him down by not telling him how stupid this is.

Those boomers weren't the free love boomers

Hippies and free love/swinger people were a very small minority that got a lot of press due to the sexual revolution.

I strongly disagree with Israel's policies regarding settlements, Palestinians in general, etc.

That does not excuse Hamas or their terrorism

This is a good time to remind everyone that Republicans want to get rid of the Department of Education so that there are no federal standards for what can be taught in schools, so that they can force schools locally to teach what they want to be true rather than what is actually true.

This article is fucking hilarious top to bottom and if you came here to comment without reading, I highly suggest you read it.

Absolutely worth the time.

They already banned Shakespeare in several schools for being too sexual.