Yeah, the thing about our world is that it doesn't actually work, so we end up wanting contradictory things. We need to attract workers, but we also don't have enough housing, so we want to build more, but if you deregulate, then you end up with awful suburban sprawl, plus we also want to preserve the forest. Regulate? Now it's unaffordable. State housing? Come on, be serious -- plus we have no money. Raise taxes on the wealthy? No because they'll leave and then we won't have jobs. We need to save the environment, but we also need economic growth; if we don't have enough economic growth, we don't have the money to spend on saving the environment.

At the heart of this is a population with a fundamentally religious belief in an economic system that just doesn't work, but we cannot question it, so we try to meet its contradictory demands, and the results are nonsense.