The point though is that ranked choice allows you all the benefits of 3rd parties without the downsides.
It's literally an equivalent scenario.
That's a neat way to say "being too lazy to actually make a difference, but I don't want to feel bad about it".
It's not a way to defeat the duopoly, it's a way to survive under it.
Voting 3rd party is also not a way to defeat the duopoly.
Or you could tell me about them? That's why I asked the question.
Sounds like an argument for amnesty for illegals honestly. And more relaxed legal immigration pathways.
and few companies are willing to build any more
I don't think this is actually true. At least in my area, developers would LOVE to build condos and apartments all over the place, but local laws are holding them back.
I suppose even in a perfectly willing area that upgrades its infrastructure to support more people, you don't want to move people in too quickly, before that infrastructure is available. But it's easy to see that become a self fulfilling prophecy: we don't take immigrants because we don't have the infrastructure, and we don't build the infrastructure because there's no demand for it.
Would more supply of workers (even naturalized ones) not drive down wages too?
This might be me projecting, but I think lack of housing stock is driven by NIMBY policies intentionally restricting stock, and not by some unchangeable market force. It doesn't have to be a limiting factor, at least not as much as at present.
Doomers and bothsides-ers can fuck off. While you people keep bitching and moaning, the adults in the room are trying to make the world a better place.
In general, I assume everyone on lemmy is some form of absolute moron, and I'm more often right than wrong.