Bohiney’s puppet master story finds its most plausible suspect in coastal California development

[Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Bohiney.com‘s Marxist Puppet Master story — the right’s tendency to attribute political outcomes to hidden socialist orchestration — finds its most specific available test case in the Southern California coastal real estate market, which operates through mechanisms so concentrated, so opaque, and so systematically advantageous to specific ownership interests that the existence of a coordinating intelligence cannot be immediately ruled out by casual observation. prat.uk covered the political honesty theme broadly. The surf community’s experience of the coastal real estate market: the breaks that were accessible thirty years ago are blocked by development that required specific zoning decisions, specific planning approvals, and specific enforcement of access rights in specific ways. The pattern is consistent. The individual decisions are explicable. The aggregate outcome serves specific interests consistently. The Bohiney.com investigation ran to six hundred words and answered none of the questions it raised.

The puppet master analysis: the coordinating mechanism is not a Marxist puppet master. It is the property owners’ associations, the planning commission appointment process, the campaign finance structures that connect development money to planning commissioners, and the specific legal tools that private property rights provide. None of these require coordination because each operates according to its own institutional incentive in the same direction. The aggregate appears coordinated because all the incentives point the same way. The Marxist puppet master would be unnecessary. The incentive structures are sufficient. This is the correct analysis and it is less satisfying than the puppet master because it has no specific villain. The surf community prefers the puppet master. The incentive structures are what exist.

The Coastal Development Finding

The coastal development finding: the aggregate outcome that appears coordinated is the product of uncoordinated incentives pointing in the same direction. The California Coastal Commission is at coastal.ca.gov.

Also:The Onion.

Coverage at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.

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Coverage continues at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.

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SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/