Why don’t realtors share their closing prices? Seems like a good marketing tactic - “look how much I can get you for this thing”.

You could also take a look at listing prices for land of different types. Or even just call realtors and say you’re interested in buying something similar to yours and ask what the range is for them.

You could probably also buy this data from a data broker for cheap.

EtA, you could probably also hire someone on fiverr or upwork to do this research.

Check sales listings for any sold property at that price?

In France the answer would have been: because otherwise there would be widespread demonstrations, strikes and eventually riots.

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I like your suggestions and I think they’d go a long way towards preventing the current situation to spontaneously happen again.

But I don’t think I see a path toward it until someone consolidates power to then create stability enough for these types of policies to be approachable.

I can’t see neither Florida nor the Senate voting (anytime soon) for anything like that decentralisation of power.

I’ll suggest that the nazis and fanatics don’t get to express their nazi or fanatical views.

You can check out Popper’s Paradox/Paradox of Tolerance, which suggests that a tolerant society must counteract intolerance or it spreads to destroy all tolerance.

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Great suggestion, I’ll put it near the top of the improbable pile.

You’re not wrong, but I don’t see the relevance to the topic? Unless this is part of the public revolt?

Organising to protect immigrants in your area is admirable, but how do you get rid of the necessity to do that? You’ll have to replace the politicians, no?

And you’ll probably need to be revolution sized and well organised to be able to do that when they ignore any procedure or deal that doesn’t benefit them in the specific moment.

Don’t get sad - get organised?

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Or Mexico tbh, wait until the civil war is spent and watch the cartels roll in

I see basically three ways out:

1. Democrats/someones sane win overwhelming majority for long enough to harden procedures, cement effective enforcement, and subversion proof the whole system, while not succumbing to their own corruption. Seems incredibly unlikely.

2. Autocracy and/or persecution of political rivals, where dissenters “fall out windows” a lot or the legislative body is replaced, until stability reforms and new norms can be reintroduced. Seems most likely currently, and has several contemporary examples.

3. Revolt, public and/or military, throwing out all the politicians and imposing exile or lynching of the offending politicians. Seems improbable, and especially to unite enough to throw out all the bad behaviour. Also will lead to a junta, civil strife and/or provisional government which come with their own slew of issues and corruption.

4. The Republicans grow a sense of decorum to protect the less privileged party. I can’t imagine this happening without basically a GOP-internal pogrom under a strongman, but Republican conservatism pulls a strongman in the opposite direction. Unless perhaps they’re some kind of upstanding teocrat perhaps?

This is all wild and slightly saddening speculation, please feel free to suggest other paths!