> In fact, I think building is how we reboot the American dream. The things we build in huge quantities, like computers and TVs, drop rapidly in price. The things we don’t, like housing, schools, and hospitals, skyrocket in price. What’s the American dream? The opportunity to have a home of your own, and a family you can provide for. We need to break the rapidly escalating price curves for housing, education, and healthcare, to make sure that every American can realize the dream, and the only way to do that is to build.
You could lower the immigration rate and ignore trans-nationalist calls to perpetually increase the GDP, primarily for their benefit. The Asian Tigers + Japan (minus Singapore, with a higher rate, but it's not a true democracy), don't have this problem. You could perhaps more importantly do better to alleviate world poverty, a strong driver of population growth, consequently immigration, consequently large environmental footprints from increasingly more people adopting 1st world lifestyles, such as this American dream of the house, car, education & healthcare, flights overseas, etc.
You could lower the immigration rate and ignore trans-nationalist calls to perpetually increase the GDP, primarily for their benefit. The Asian Tigers + Japan (minus Singapore, with a higher rate, but it's not a true democracy), don't have this problem. You could perhaps more importantly do better to alleviate world poverty, a strong driver of population growth, consequently immigration, consequently large environmental footprints from increasingly more people adopting 1st world lifestyles, such as this American dream of the house, car, education & healthcare, flights overseas, etc.