If your city's too pricey, move — it's the American way

Young socialists demand that the government come up with a magical formula that makes Brooklyn apartments affordable. It's never going to happen. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post

Anti-capitalist populists like to tell people what they want to hear rather than the truth.

So many of them were quite upset at commentator Ben Shapiro’s recent contention that New Yorkers who struggle with affordability should move.

“If you’re a young person and you can’t afford to live here, then maybe you should not live here,” Shapiro reasonably told the hosts of the Triggernometry podcast.

“I mean, that is a real thing. I know we live in a society that says you deserve to live where you grew up, but the reality is that the history of America is almost literally the opposite of that.”

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