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A housing situation like the modern US would have been ridiculous for any 19th century European to write about. Having most of a population living in homes occu

A housing situation like the modern US would have been ridiculous for any 19th century European to write about. Having most of a population living in homes occupied by their owners was unheard of and irrelevant at that time and/or place. Popular home ownership comprises a uniquely American political strategy. Calling this a "weakness" is just laughable. What other 19th century thinkers are you holding to the standards of a God?

JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> Popular home ownership comprises a uniquely American political strategy We're smack in the middle of countries that measure and report homeownership [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne...
- xkekjrktllss 3y ago
  Those are both American countries, but that isn't necessarily the point, which is a historical one. Tapping bits of seemingly infinite natural resources to expand land-owning constituencies has played an overwhelming role in the history of the United States and all over the New World.
  - JumpCrisscross 3y ago
    > Those are both American countries There are more than two countries on that list. Most aren’t in the Americas. Laos, Romania, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Macedonia, Vietnam, China, Serbia, Lithuania, Russia, Singapore, Poland, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Bulgaria, Indonesia, Taiwan, Latvia, Oman, Estonia, Malta, Norway, Thailand, Czechia, Portugal, Malaysia, Slovenia, Spain, Egypt, Kenya, Italy, Iceland, Greece, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Ireland, the EU as a whole, Cyprus, South Africa, Finland and Australia each have higher homeownership rates than the United States.
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  - ffgjgf1 3y ago
    Except many European countries have significantly higher home ownership rates than the US. Belgium for instance which has been one of the most intensively economically developed areas over the last 700 years higher he ownership and interestingly both one of the highest median wealth per capita AND lowest(!) wealth inequality in the developed world. That’s pretty much the opposite of what you’d expect (of course you won’t reply to this comment now).

JumpCrisscross 3y ago

> Popular home ownership comprises a uniquely American political strategy We're smack in the middle of countries that measure and report homeownership [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne...

xkekjrktllss 3y ago
Those are both American countries, but that isn't necessarily the point, which is a historical one. Tapping bits of seemingly infinite natural resources to expand land-owning constituencies has played an overwhelming role in the history of the United States and all over the New World.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > Those are both American countries There are more than two countries on that list. Most aren’t in the Americas. Laos, Romania, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Macedonia, Vietnam, China, Serbia, Lithuania, Russia, Singapore, Poland, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Bulgaria, Indonesia, Taiwan, Latvia, Oman, Estonia, Malta, Norway, Thailand, Czechia, Portugal, Malaysia, Slovenia, Spain, Egypt, Kenya, Italy, Iceland, Greece, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Ireland, the EU as a whole, Cyprus, South Africa, Finland and Australia each have higher homeownership rates than the United States.
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- ffgjgf1 3y ago
  Except many European countries have significantly higher home ownership rates than the US. Belgium for instance which has been one of the most intensively economically developed areas over the last 700 years higher he ownership and interestingly both one of the highest median wealth per capita AND lowest(!) wealth inequality in the developed world. That’s pretty much the opposite of what you’d expect (of course you won’t reply to this comment now).