neo means new and liberal means lives in a coastal city

so ig it has something to do with gentrification

Neoliberals are people who believe in using market forces to help solve societal problems. This is typically because market forces are better than virtually everything else we have at incentivizing behaviors.

For example, if you want to lower carbon emissions than you should tax them. If want to bring down the cost of housing than you should deregulate the housing market. Neoliberal foreign policy is also similar. If you want to make countries less likely to fight than you should make them trade more, as you're less likely to fight a country if you both heavily rely on one another.

That said, a good Neoliberal needs to remember that the government needs to correct for market failures and that policy goals are irrelevant, policy effects are all that matters.

If want to bring down the cost of housing than you should deregulate the housing market.

Great take, but I do want to add to this. So much US housing policy has been based on the idea that your house should be an investment, and that’s just not feasible. Without outside factors, a house should be like a car. Costly brand new, but as it ages it should have less resale value, and sold to new home buyers for less than it cost new. When the demand for housing grows faster than the supply, the price skyrockets.

But the expectations of boomers and other homeowners have influenced elected officials to artificially restrict the supply of housing. They do this by a variety of means, notably zoning, where officials can designate certain areas to be only single family homes, and duplexes and other apartments that can fit more people per square foot can’t be built.

Imagine how idiotic it would be to do that with anything else, like smartphones. Imagine if they limited how many new iPhones could be made, so that if you wanted an iPhone, you’d pay 2 grand for an iPhone 5 with a cracked screen.

I’m not a huge fan of deregulation, but right now, getting rid of the regulations hoisted on us by boomer homeowners would be the best way to make housing affordable

If you keep talking this way to me I'm gonna rip your clothes off and fuck you right here and now.

On a more serious note, I'm thinking about moving to a place that has a high cost of living due to housing costs. At this point I don't know if I should, simply because I feel like it is too expensive to NOT buy a house that I treat as an investment if I move there. I can't afford to piss away 2-3k a month for artificially inflated rent, but if I buy a house with the idea that the money i spend is an investment than I'm part of the problem. It's a catch 22

It’s a spook invented by leftoids and indulged in by rightiods. It just means vaguely status quo in a way the speaker doesn’t like.

I've read books on the history of "neoliberalism" and even I don't know what neoliberal is. I guess nowadays neoliberal is a person who believes in the efficiency of free market and encourages using it for solving most problems while ascribing the state an important role in organizing society in the areas where market isn't nearly as effective. Basically they say the market should solve most problems and the government should provide services like building infrastructure, providing education, regulating financial sector etc. They're like classical liberals but they're not as skeptical of government and their main focus is economics rather than ethics.

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Neo liberal is a code word for fascist

Also there is no such thing as neoliberalism

They’re neocons who won’t admit it

neo-cons but more socially inclusive

Gay neocons

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Neoliberal was a term for a specific brand of market first / supply side policy making that should most be associated with the Thatcher and Reagan administrations. It has since been turned into a bludgeon for anyone that protectionalists or socialists don’t like, to the point where the bow tie wearing dorks in r/neoliberal had their minds broken and now actively try to “reappropriate” the term. Hillary was not a neolib. Obama was not a neolib.

My preferred take:

How ‘Neoliberalism’ Became the Left’s Favorite Insult of Liberals

Neo Liberalism is just one face among the many possessed by the great and glorious Moloch. It is the face presented to those who are vainly grasping at straws, trying to preserve the failed experiment of the middle class. It is the voice that says "You're such a kind, caring person for paying taxes that go to fund social services for the poor. You should reward yourself by spending money."

A neoliberal is someone who disagrees with me and isn’t republican

A capitalist that uses the state to enact some social programs to pacify the populace they are ripping off.

It's basically the worst of both worlds.

Hardcore capitalists like the rest of us, but alao give a shit about reddit points and twitter retweets. In other words, too big of pussies to admit they're conservative.

One head of the leftoid Hydra.

Neoliberal is a leftist that doesnt agree with me

Neoliberals think that America is the greatest country on earth because minorities like Obama are able to rack up sick kill counts in the Middle East.