

TheLawOfAverages
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Defy The Prevailing Narrative



The Most Oppressed Group In History Is Actually Group IQ Differences Researchers










@Noahpinion Americans don’t generally experience crime or disorder. You live in SF so your perspective is warped.


In 1934, the Federal Housing Administration drew red lines around Chicago's South Side, officially marking it "hazardous" for mortgage lending. The bureaucrats' reasoning? Too many Black families lived there, making it a "risky investment" in their expert opinion. Those same redlined neighborhoods are now wrapped in layers of zoning restrictions that would make a Soviet planner weep with joy. Single-family-only zones, minimum lot sizes, height restrictions, parking requirements - a beautiful web of "planning" that just happens to keep housing scarce and expensive. Modern city councils don't need to mention race anymore; they just invoke "neighborhood character" and "traffic concerns" while blocking apartments near good schools and transit. The red ink has faded, but the exclusion lives on through the magic of municipal regulation. What began as explicit racial gatekeeping has evolved into a sophisticated system of regulatory barriers that accomplishes the same goal with plausible deniability. The government that created the problem now promises to solve it - with more planning, naturally.








In 1934, the Federal Housing Administration drew red lines around Chicago's South Side, officially marking it "hazardous" for mortgage lending. The bureaucrats' reasoning? Too many Black families lived there, making it a "risky investment" in their expert opinion. Those same redlined neighborhoods are now wrapped in layers of zoning restrictions that would make a Soviet planner weep with joy. Single-family-only zones, minimum lot sizes, height restrictions, parking requirements - a beautiful web of "planning" that just happens to keep housing scarce and expensive. Modern city councils don't need to mention race anymore; they just invoke "neighborhood character" and "traffic concerns" while blocking apartments near good schools and transit. The red ink has faded, but the exclusion lives on through the magic of municipal regulation. What began as explicit racial gatekeeping has evolved into a sophisticated system of regulatory barriers that accomplishes the same goal with plausible deniability. The government that created the problem now promises to solve it - with more planning, naturally.

The Negative Income Tax experiment (NIT), an RCT of providing... a negative income tax to floor incomes at the poverty line. Results: less employment, especially among young single men, greatly increased divorce.