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I've heard a similar sentiment recently.

"I'll start respecting the elderly when they stop bothering me with their email problems."

It's more like I'll have capacity to help the elderly when I've paid off the huge student loans they dumped on me, got a house in the ridiculous market they setup and found a job worth having in the labour market they built...

That, too. My uncle could buy his house for 3 months of salary. It was cheap and made from wood and he had to put in lots of work to make it nice, but good luck just buying the land nowadays for that price.

That said, the horrible housing market is in my opinion mostly due to foreign mafia/dictator/oligarch investment through shell companies. The most expensive areas in London are all sold, but empty...

Yeah, you're not wrong especially in places like London (also based there). But the voter block that vetos changing that is OAPs...

> due to foreign mafia/dictator/oligarch investment through shell companies

True, but this was allowed to happen by the current and old generation of voters.

I thought it was about destroying the planet and enabling the ever-growing financial inequality.

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