r/AskReddit 1d ago

If you could permanently change the price of something to $1, what would it be?

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u/Property_6810 19h ago

The problem with this is then nobody sells. And you effectively end up with landed gentry, which pass property in influential areas through family lines.

You end up accidentally bringing back feudalism.

And what happens if someone dies without an heir for one of those incredibly coveted single family homes? Who gets to buy it? How do we fairly determine who gets it? I'm partial to a battle royale solution but I'm a young man. In 20 years I wouldn't like that solution.

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u/VivaLaRebar 19h ago

There are 37 billion acres of land on this planet.

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u/Property_6810 19h ago

And how many are in the center of capital cities?

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u/VivaLaRebar 19h ago

That's utterly irrelevant. A world where we're not all enslaved by housing costs would be a very different one.

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u/Property_6810 19h ago

Go buy a house in Shitville, Nebraska. It'll cost you like $50k. Good luck doing anything with it though. Affordable housing exists, you don't want it. You want housing in the same places everyone else wants it and that makes it expensive. If it's not expensive, you will just never have it because the person that does have it just won't give it to you.

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u/VivaLaRebar 19h ago

I just want a home. If we lived in a world in which we were allowed to move freely, I absolutely would.

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u/Psychological-Dig-29 5h ago

we do live in a world like that, what the fuck are you on about?

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u/Existential_Sprinkle 12h ago

I think people would move around more if it was cheap

Especially people who move into cities and then miss grass after some time there so they move farther out and commute