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Or just move somewhere where you won't find work. Or buy a house like you say, with money you inherited from your rich parents.
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There are places where you can get land for free. If you band together with your socialist friends, you could turn that into the next glamorous megacity.
This is something that happens in many housing markets throughout the world, not just the Bay Area or even U.S. big cities in general. Also being priced out doesn't even always relate to rent, but other costs of living.
You ask a broad question, you get a broad answer. Being priced out is something that happens and is not always related to one's salaries.
"When someone is priced out of a market, their choices are to simply remain out of the market, to wait for the market to become more affordable, to improve their own financial situation to the point where they can afford to buy, or, if possible, to consider a different market. For example, someone who was priced out of their neighborhood's real estate market could look at a different part of the city or even an entirely different city or state."
Where socialists go wrong is that they simply attribute price hikes to "greedy capitalists". The truth is that demand goes up, and hence the prices (because other people are willing to pay more).
Even historically it has been a problem, without gentrification, if people had kids. Like you are born on your parents little farm, and your parents have 10 children. If all children want to stay on the farm (and then their children and their children, and so on), it simply doesn't work out. The farm is not big enough to support so many people. So many children had to go elsewhere and "try their luck". That is rooted in nature, not capitalism.
There is plenty of cheap land available everywhere. Berlin from the OPs story was very, very cheap 20 years ago, but then the socialist didn't want to buy. They preferred to enjoy the cheap rents. The government even sold most of the social housing. Now that it has gone up in value, they want to have their shares, risk free.
> leftist conspiracy theory
> this was the same angle the Nazis
> socialist friends
I think you spend too much time on the internet...
Your arguments make me think of mine when I was 15 and didn't know shit about the real world. No you shouldn't have to restart your social/professional life and move to somewhere cheap to afford an house. Min wage people in Germany will never own a house no matter how much help they get from the state (and most of the help is to help pay rent afaik)
A lot of people can barely afford living in their home town and your answer basically is "just move to a small town in the middle of nowhere"
Isn't that the inalienable consequence of society? People that can add a lot of value will get to live in the desirable areas, whereas people who can't will have to move elsewhere. Do people have a right to live in their home town? What if their home town is a global financial center?
Your "society" is made of people and rules, people make choices, people vote for rules, if enough people tells you their situation sucks it might swing the pendulum in the other direction. "life is life" has never been a very strong line to defend.
At some point we'll have to go back to being human and stop considering money as the main driving force of every single things we do in life.