Hmm. Maybe this is a bit of an outlandish take, but although his decisions do seem at least superficially sus, I have a hard time agreeing with Josh's take. He chooses to make a lot of highly agreeable comparisons, but to me it seems more like a city (or some level) of government severely turning up the temperature on a particularly egregious contingent of landlords, landlord, or demographic, who've been abusing the system we've all been chill with until it's just not cool anymore. You could crank up property tax by double or triple the next year, and not offer the ability to vote on the issue of zoning anymore, or you could do the thing that no politician has the balls or the power to do and fundamentally change the system in a way that takes those issues off the table entirely, making the whole system more equitable in the future. The repercussions could be dire for some people, but it is what it would take to give a giant fuck you to the people who hold the reins. If the landlords can always hold the poor vulnerable freelancers that live in their basement suite over the heads of anyone who could otherwise theoretically change the rules, nothing will ever really change, and the people who've been along for the profitable ride won't want it to. But if you don't do it, you might risk your future hypothetical economy.
Now, I know that's all a bit of a reach, but it's hard for me to not think asking for Matt to be removed for this reason is just like all those people who ostensibly
would want public transit to be funded for all those other people who can't afford cars, until they finally got around to ripping up the street you use to drive to work every day and jacked up your taxes by $50.
But, all that said, I've also never liked WordPress at all and don't have a dog in the fight, this is just a thought experiment. However, if I had to move because my landlord eventually got screwed for not reporting my rent on their income tax, I'd be like "well sometimes that happens, was nice while it lasted but my place was a shithole, they weren't competing fairly, and they were constantly showing up to city council meetings trying to block a mid-rise from going up while I was at work paying their mortgage".
Now, I know that's all a bit of a reach, but it's hard for me to not think asking for Matt to be removed for this reason is just like all those people who ostensibly would want public transit to be funded for all those other people who can't afford cars, until they finally got around to ripping up the street you use to drive to work every day and jacked up your taxes by $50.
But, all that said, I've also never liked WordPress at all and don't have a dog in the fight, this is just a thought experiment. However, if I had to move because my landlord eventually got screwed for not reporting my rent on their income tax, I'd be like "well sometimes that happens, was nice while it lasted but my place was a shithole, they weren't competing fairly, and they were constantly showing up to city council meetings trying to block a mid-rise from going up while I was at work paying their mortgage".