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The housing crisis is only a crisis if you're not a property owner, and in most cases property owners de facto control governments if for no other reason than t
by api 3y ago
The housing crisis is only a crisis if you're not a property owner, and in most cases property owners de facto control governments if for no other reason than the fact that they tend to be older and vote more. This is true in the US and probably in the EU too.
- mostlylurks 3y agoMuch of the EU has the added problem of there simply being more old people than young people, making this issue and some others, like the pension issue, much more hopeless than they would be in countries with healthy[0] population pyramids. [0]: "Healthy" being a shorthand for "compatible with our[1] current economic system". [1]: Basically the entire world.
- HPsquared 3y agoCould call it the "population pyramid scheme"