Supply and demand took a back seat to hoarding assets to prop up investor value.
Taken literally the government is engaged in class warfare by forcing the public to engage in labor for private enterprise to prosper.
America is effectively a caste system, abstracting a persons value into a net worth, focused on gossip, and gaming semantics, very similarly to religious tribes.
Murder rates have come down generally speaking, over the centuries.
The cycle we need to break is letting millions starve and go homeless. We refuse to see it as equivalent to other human atrocities political capture by selfish, bitter men and women.
We need a pivot to new core values entirely. My preference would be along the lines of prioritizing biological/medical health of individuals and setting aside superfluous economic activity. But good luck passing laws favored by the public (polling has shown a majority support universal healthcare for years now).
Work stoppages will force austerity on aristocrats. History is pretty clear that’s what it takes to move the needle politically.
Gaming house prices is, to borrow Greers area/perimeter metaphor for programming, hacking the area of the established perimeter.
Futurists have been predicting collapse of nation states and a re-emergence of the city-state by 2050 for a while now. Often leaning on environmental concern and the lack of Federal exigency to tackle the problem. Perhaps they’re onto something.