can we just admit prices are too high, and its supposed to discourage people starting more families.. population will fall and some decades in the future everything will be back in balance.
"The stone age didn't end for a lack of stones"... correct, we'll be right back there.
ceti331 wrote:can we just admit prices are too high, and its supposed to discourage people starting more families.. population will fall and some decades in the future everything will be back in balance.
Prices aren't too high in order to discourage people from starting families. It's far more prosaic and mundane than that. They are too high because our elites have built their wealth on the back of our indebtedness and so we cannot be allowed to default for that would mean our indebtedness would cease, we would be free and they would lose their wealth and power. All of the other social consequences are secondary, at least as far as they are concerned. For us the people, of course, those secondary social consequences are of primary importance. However, I would wager that as far as our elites are concerned, the great unwashed can all just go back to living in multi family/multi generational slum dwellings and be grateful for it.
Funnily enough I overheard some passersby on the footpath past the Plot today talking about precisely that. Included the sentence: "I'd love to have 2 (was already pushing one along in a pram) but our place just isn't big enough..."
Well, I have been given notice of redundancy after 14 years of service because my job has been effectively outsourced. Not really a surprise as I have been working towards porting our systems into the cloud for two years now. Anyway, if I don't get a new job (and I know several middle aged IT guys on the scrapheap of outdated skills) I will have to fall back on being an evil capitalist landlord to make ends meet. Our new tenants are a professional Spanish couple, both here because no jobs at home, double income barely making ends meet, no family , no car, just to pay the below market rent we are charging on our 2 bed starter home.
PS_RalphW wrote:I have been working towards porting our systems into the cloud for two years now.
Er, that isn't the way to make yourself indispensable.
Trust it will all work out. Viewed from a position of retirement, work appears to be over-rated.
