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> It seems like it's the same story everywhere I look. Housing is the main driver of inequality and there is little change happening. It's a way of transferrin
by TulliusCicero 4y ago
> It seems like it's the same story everywhere I look. Housing is the main driver of inequality and there is little change happening.
It's a way of transferring money from younger adults to older adults, and older adults vote.
It's basically an intergenerational pyramid scheme where each generation pays to the previous one, and each time they pay more. Of course, like any pyramid scheme, you can only keep it up so long.
- peterashford 4y agoThis is it. Nailed it
- dumbotron 4y agoImagine if votes were weighted by life expectancy
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoI'd imagine political parties would then be poisoning their opponents' voters or encouraging diseases so that they could win/remain in power.
- jopsen 4y agoImagine if votes were weighted by life experience I guess that would sort of even things out :D
- chewz 4y ago> It's a way of transferring money from younger adults to older adults, and older adults vote. Always makes me wonder where these younger adults come from? Don't they have parents who invested their saving in a few apartments for rent? Can't they get some financial help from their parents?
- dan_mctree 4y agoThis is how a lot of the younger adults are keeping their head above water. Not everyone has this luxury though, it's not like everyone's parents made bank
- alfnor 4y ago> Don't they have parents who invested their saving in a few apartments for rent? Is this satire? Big "How can you be homeless? Just buy a house!" energy.