❤🙏🏾Thank you bud!

Thank you Howie for providing the support and guidance we needed from the conceptualization phase to the completion of this project. Sayem and I had the privilege of learning about real estate through the lens of sustainability in a way that was unique when compared to our usual classroom structure at university. I would agree that there is definitely a question raised when it comes to social sustainability as 3D-printed construction becomes more prevalent. I would say our hope for the future is that the labour force is generally able to pivot to needs in the market as growing technology will always cause shifts in any industry. I also appreciate your mention of how trees are a renewable resource that stores carbon, a point that would have aided our discussion and goes to further support growth of mass timber!

No - you are wrong. Where is the basis for comparison in your idea that neo liberalism failed? Failed in comparison to what? It is clear you don't know what happened in the GFC if you think capitalism or neo liberalism failed more than any other system.

@@Rob-fx2dw For starters, 2008. I mean... where were you?

@@jones1351 Exactly where I should have been very skeptical of what policies were being put forward with a resultant string of deficit budgets which were eventually going to result in something bad. I was unaware of the earlier decisions of the earlier administration's actions which had brought into existence sub prime loans which never would and should have existed.

​@@Rob-fx2dw Those 'policies...being put forward with a resultant...blah, blah, blah' were put forward by - wait for it - Neo-Liberals. They deregulated the banks. They entered into NAFTA and other 'free trade' agreements which decimated the working class. They blocked and then exiled Brooksley Born for daring to do her job. I.e., calling for Wall Street's 'exotic financial instruments' to be more transparent. Instruments which went on to crash the global economy. All that, and more, happened on Neo-liberalism's watch. As for deficit budgets, what are they? The difference between what the U.S. government spends (creates) into the economy minus what it takes out (taxes, bonds). It's actually the amount of money that Uncle Sugar LEAVES in the economy. As Prof. Kelton points out. U.S. govt. deficit = private sector surplus. I remember Thatcher saying there is no public money, only private money. Oh really, Maggie? What happens when someone in the private sector decides to print their own money? They spend the next 20 years afraid to pick up the soap. Every dollar in existence got its start in the U.S. government and her agents. The KEY is productive capacity. That's the true Wealth of Nations.

@@jones1351 First point :- You say " They deregulated the banks.". Are you making a case that deregulation caused the sub prime crisis and GFC? Why did it not happen in other countries if deregulation caused the sub prime crisis and GFC ?. Second point:- If NAFTA decimated the working class how did that happen worldwide i.e. the GFC is the Global Financial Crisis when it made an increase in jobs in those other countries outside of USA? Third point:- you say "As Prof. Kelton points out. U.S. govt. deficit = private sector surplus.". so what if he says so. he can't supply any independent evidence that his sectoral balance theory is valid. His only justification is that he said himself in his Minsky explanation which shows the introversion of the whole idea:- a theory based on an idea he concocted himself. . Fourth point: you say " Every dollar in existence got its start in the U.S. government and her agents. " Who are the agents? They are Not the private banks because the private banks are not agents in any real or legal sense at all. Agents are independent entities who do not create the goods or services that the sellers or buyers supply or receive. The evidence of their operations is they create money at their own will according to their own risk criteria and make profits from it or losses. They don't get from anyone else including the Federal Reserve or government itself. The government does not supply them any money to lend. The private banks are not entities who facilitate transactions between two different participants but they are actual creators of the service they provide- creating and lending money and getting the money paid back with interest for doing so. It seems you are frightfully ignorant of the role of agents in the economy and ignorant of the money creation process but have swallowed the misleading information of MMT pushers because of this.