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[–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Some economic analysis that seems right. Great.

But what about a more philosophical approach? What does it mean to turn anything and everything into an investment market? Why do it at all and what are the basic trade offs and implications?

Turning our homes into a stock market on the face of it sounds outright dystopian to me. Stability, mobility, independence, basic welfare, private property incentives and even Australian nationalism against being bought out by foreigners. All of these values seem both to fly in the face of the idea of hot housing markets and to be obvious values worth caring about.

So what happened? Apart from corrupt politics, a good amount is boomer psychosis was at play I think … ‘all about “me” getting rich’.

I still find it hard to believe that a conversation or two didn’t happen about the fundamentals here!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Be careful when you blame the boomers. The majority of them are fucked too. Some of them were tricked, and many others were powerless.

    It's a class war not an age war.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago

    Fair! But to clarify, I’d happily say that “boomer” is a state of mind we’re all vulnerable too. I’m a millennial and openly describe as a boomer when I’m being such.

    Which doesn’t counter your point or anything, I’m just explaining that I really wasn’t thinking about the specific demographic but the mentality that I saw at the time (and see today from non-boomers).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    UMM NO ITS OBVIOUSLY LABOR BECAUSE REASONS PLUS THEY ARE IN POWER RIGHT NOW. -every tard lining up to felch the ranga

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Yes. Next question

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