Then There Was Dick

Dick has decided that "shoebox apartments" should be banned from Auckland City. He knows better where people should live. They will not be allowed to live in apartments that are smaller than a certain size.

Dick says that these small apartments have been built by "bad developers". There are good developers and bad developers. The good ones will be encouraged and bad ones will be banned. Dick will decide what is good and what is bad. As I recall, the snake said Dick would be able to decide the difference between good and bad. Except the snake was wrong!!!

What seems odd is that these bad developers have been able to sell their apartments. The price must not be too high, or they would not have sold. No one has been forced to buy them. If they are so "bad", why have sensible people have chosen to live in these apartments. No one has forced people to live in them, not like in Russia, where Stalin decided what that everyone should live in awful communal apartments.

Are the people who have freely chosen to live in these shoebox apartments not as wise as Dick? Does he know better than they do how and where they should live? He must be a very Clever Dick.