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That's fair, we aren't anywhere close to that though right? From research I saw, investors usually push prices down.

Tangent but corporate landlords in my experience are so much better than mom and pops.

I don't generally agree, i think they should be able to buy them as well. We can't limit how many homes people own, how do you rent then? What do we classify as "too much" house ownership? 10?100?1000?

Is land scarcity really an issue? Genuinely asking, cause curious

Time to build!

What's immensely frustrating is so much of this conspiracy shit, comes from the U.S. as well. A population where the median is living better every year, and better than 90% of the world. It's mind boggling, people don't understand how good they have it.

I'm not against progress, obviously make things better, but the perspective is important.

I dislike these sensationalist headlines, but the housing one irks me the most. PE didn't make housing expensive, your neighbors, grandma and grandpa did by restricting new construction. In cities dumb policy like the rent control did. Stop blaming Boogeymen and actually look into issues. The ram thing is unfortunate, but i don't really see a solution to it, for now.

46k up votes for this shit, Jesus Christ everyone's insane these days man

Do they have them today? Wasn't my claim that they never did.

No county matches the depravity of the U.S justice system? Other countries (china for example) have reeducation and labor camps. The us has its problems, and we should make things better! But it's incomparable, china actively imprisons political enemies, puts Muslims in "reeducation" camps, and has an iron fist on free expression.

In the U.S. you have free trials, in china you don't. What are you even talking about.

The emergence of a totalitarian state compared to a liberal democracy (for all it's faults and current state due to voters making bad choices) is so much worse for everyone in the world. Us included

Equating the west, to Russia is such an unserious opinion. The west has it's problems, don't get me wrong, but generally we have liberal democracies, which are more free, successful, better on human rights, and have the capability to improve the world(as it has).

I mean what they think is somewhat irrelevant here, their UN mission was to stop terrorists from rebuilding, and utterly failed.

This assumes that all nation and political actors will be happy to engage in democracy, which isn't the case. Not every country is a rational liberal democracy (and even those are having a rough time).

Yeah, didn't they completely fail at stopping hezbollah from rebuilding, right in their backyard?

Ireland having 0 military capabilities, and being completely dependent on NATO, while being extremely opinionated, on how and what NATO does, always irked me deeply.

Automation is inevitable, has happened non-stop since the industrial revolution. Imo we should never "protect jobs" when in the end they will hurt the vast majority of other people.