• @iopq
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    15 months ago

    Home ownership rate has been steady for decades

    The wages have been going up, just not exactly as fast productivity for several reasons:

    • Cowbee [he/him]
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      15 months ago

      That certainly doesn’t look steady, lol. Large investment firms and banks are buying up a large number of single family housing, making it unaffordable.

      Wages do go up, yes, with respect to inflation. They get nowhere close to productivity increases, as exploitation rises.

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        5 months ago

        Look at the scale, it’s between 63-68 for decades and the top number was literally a bubble

        I agree that not all of the productivity gains go to the workers, but the workers are better off now than before

        • Cowbee [he/him]
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          15 months ago

          I am referring to the literal times we live in. Single-family housing units are being gobbled up by large firms, this will not show up on your graph just yet.

          The Workers are now recieving even less of the Value they create than before, that’s a wild way to justify this.

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            5 months ago

            Corporations owning houses is a tiny percentage, again, home ownership rate is 60%+

              • @iopq
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                05 months ago

                It’s not even a special problem if a corp is a landlord or just one person.

                The problem is not enough housing, not enough construction. Housing prices are actually decreasing in Austin because Texas builds

                • Cowbee [he/him]
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                  15 months ago

                  Landlords are problems themselves, it doesn’t matter if it’s a corp or a person.

                  • @iopq
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                    05 months ago

                    The problem is NIMBYs, not landlords