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Restaurant servers at zero percent? I know some who own houses in the Bay Area. Shit, I don't own one, but I know multiple restaurant workers who do. Granted, these people don't exactly work at the Olive Garden (we're talking at least one Michelin star), but it's not as simple as this article makes it out to be, not by a long shot.

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Restaurants with Michelin stars are so rare that their servers, even if they do better than others, probably won't make a dent in the zero percent. Their impact on the average earnings of restaurant servers is negligible.

Overall, this study is very US-specific, of course. In some industrial countries the norm is to rent and only a minority own their homes anyway.

It's what percent of houses someone making the median wage can afford. Not what percent of people can afford a house.

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