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so long as you build loads of council houses, keep building them and don’t then sell them off cheap.
Exactly - the market, left to its own devices, produces socially undesirable outcomes. So we can choose to intervene in the market to fix it.
The debate is really about who does this, how much and when. And for whose benefit.
ChasnotRobert
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Nah. Capitalism is OK so long as you build loads of council houses, keep building them and don’t then sell them off cheap.
It’s really just a case of building more stuff. It doesn’t actually matter who owns it.