Ha!
I went from #3 in the 80s to #4, then to #1 in the mid 1990s.
I don’t think it matters where you start, what bothers me so much more is the lack of opportunity to move up this chart now. I knew, in my heart, that if I sold out and worked someplace evil I could have the big money, and what’s more, even without doing evil I could have the small money by following the steps - go to school, get a job.
I don’t feel like younger people have that. It always took some degree of luck, but more like bad luck would set you back. Now it’s more like you need good luck just to get started!
That is not the consequence of enough housing. It’s from wealth hoarding.
Damn that backpack looking spacious af
After the embarrassment of the last ten years, and the ongoing embarrassment until the fat orange child rapist dies, then I’d say getting a backpack and leaving the Nazied States of America is probably the best move.
Appropriate that something in a neoliberal community is in the shitposting community too.
China is facing opposite problem
Building it isn’t the problem. My Republican shithole burb just bulldozed the last of our open space, to build 600 single family units starting in the “low one millions.” Can’t afford that? No problem. They’re also building 2000 condos, starting in “the mid 500s.”
Starting to see the real problem?
There’s plenty of housing, it’s just not profitable to let people live there, so obviously it’s better to just leave it all empty.
The backwards thing is, it probably actually is profitable, but we can’t see beyond the next quarter. We don’t understand that you can invest in your people.
I might have kids if I had the space for it. You know, future taxpayers.
Obviously fake and misrepresented. The paint isn’t peeling off that van.
200 million Americans in 1970, 340 million now. The dream of a nice house with a big yard is limited by space; space that also requires farmland, forests, parks, etc… We need dense apartment buildings, not houses.
lol all the people in states ini housing crisis will just complain about rich companies by housing, or even the Chinese buying houses. No one just wants to build housing
We made a shit tin of those. Many are empty to drive prices up.
In Europe we have already achieved the backpack level. We are winning. 💪
It’s all about the used backpack market here man!
Another cyberpunk come true scenario that involves absolutely no cool cybernetics
Residential housing shouldn’t be owned by corporations. It should be built by them and then sold to individuals.
A co-op could handle it without much problem.
Yeah, anything that prevents the financialisation of residential housing floats my boat. In Iceland we have big corpos selling each other houses at over market price to increase the average m^2 price in an area. It’s pretty bonkers.
In the US, money laundering accomplishes essentially the same thing.
