> long-term economic concentration that has held for centuries This reminds me of the article someone posted on HN that, from ancient Roman times till today, a

> long-term economic concentration that has held for centuries This reminds me of the article someone posted on HN that, from ancient Roman times till today, a nice house has always cost roughly 10,000 grams of gold. It wasn't quite true and is an over-generalization, but it was an interesting point. I see this recent housing boom mostly through the lens of monetary expansion, since the US population has not actually skyrocketed over the last 2 years.