Hasan Syed

Rail, bike and density

[Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn]

The panic over a bit of fall in the stock market shows why it's basically politically impossible to bring down housing prices. Imagine what an across the board 20% fall in the price of homes would do politically, not to mention to people's finances.

[Hasan Syed @HasnSyd]

Its also because of the world of suburbs we've designed. People used to be closer to each other, whether it was in the cities or in rural areas.

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

One of the elephants in the room as to why women want careers is because the decline in socialization means being a stay at home mom can be super isolating for a lot of people

Sometimes it’s not that women want to build PowerPoints, they just want to see other adults regularly

[Floyd Marinescu 🔰 @floydmarinescu]

Imagine if our tax system didn't take from work, but rewarded it.

We could do that by eliminating income, property, and transfer taxes with land value tax, while improving the housing market.

BC's land assessment was designed to do just this. Here's how it could work.

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[Hasan Syed @HasnSyd]

@JustTaxRent The whole tax system / code seems to be a product of lobby groups vying for concessions, exceptions, etc. Just replace everything with LVT. Its all arbitrary, just to keep people busy.

[Hasan Syed @HasnSyd]

It's funny to see how of this tariff spat between Canada and USA is exclusively about alcohol, cars and gas.

Seems like that's all we sell to each other. Coincidentally also the biggest socially accepted killers.

[Arnold Platon @Arnold_Platon]

Dad used to tell me Brăiconf (textile factory in Brăila 🇷🇴) made military shirts for both Iran and Iraq during the 80s...

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

There have been thousands of generations of humans, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World.

This is a real photo of the sunset on Mars.

[J.K. Lundblad @JK_Lundblad]

Grok 3 is Georgist. Who would have thought?

https://t.co/ggZvHVCNDL

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

THIRD WORLDISMS - A GUIDE

A Masterthread of posts about ‘Third Worldisms’ - Behaviours or Customs typically seen in the Third World that in recent years are becoming increasingly common in the First World because of both migration trends and declining social trust 🧵

[Lazy Canadian Entrepreneur @JimChuong]

Housing will never be affordable to the majority.

Accept it.

[Hasan Syed @HasnSyd]

Speechless

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

Meanwhile on Chongqing metro

[Hasan Syed @HasnSyd]

@11K25_Energia great loss

[Hasan Syed @HasnSyd]

We made an entire civilization dependent on having multiple sets of this overly complicated technology.

In turn it shaped out cities, economies, and even our social relations.

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

A whole vehicle laid bare. 🚘

[Hasan Syed @HasnSyd]

We will see a lot more panic and this sector and the larger economies of the developed world come to terms with pivotal shift brought on by the Chinese.

Not to mention the Personal Electric Vehicles that China is also leading it, like ebikes, EUCs, etc.

[Hasan Syed @HasnSyd]

The whole car industry is seemingly in crisis.

Dodge, Nissan, Rivian, VW, the list goes on.

Electrification has been a big struggle, especially as government policies are shifting.

And the writing is on the wall, competition from China is ruthless.

[Hasan Syed @HasnSyd]

China is able to build its own supply chain for batteries and electrification, because it doesn't have self-sufficient oil reserves. But is doing it has outclassed all potential competition, given its scale.