Comment on Australia has a $127,000 housing affordability question
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I don’t agree its complicated, demand is never the problem, it’s always and only supply and that’s a reflection of poor governance…So fuck voters for electing and reelecting neoliberal shit bags making sure its only ever made worse, particularly hypocritical Labor . At least the LNP wear their greed and disdain on thier sleeves, similarly with Climate Change.
It’s like suggesting a lack of food is a demand problem
Orwell wrote this about British Labour 80 yeaea ago and it applies today to them as well as the ALP .
All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment,’ demands that the robbery shall continue.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Okay interesting, thats a broad point to claim. If supply is always the problem, and demand never the problem, then, running with the food theme, why is sugar so popular?
Humans went to extraodinray lengths, and committed many crimes against others to produce and secure supplies of sugar cane in particular. Whole nations now exist that are a result of that trade hundreds of years ago. Supply of sugar was hard, and while its quite abundant now, i think its hard to argue that people don’t still exert a massive demand pull for the product in a multitude of forms.
The demand for sugar was so high in France during Napoleon’s reign that when the British essentially cut off the French from the sugar fields of the Carribean, the French were under pressure to develop a substitute for the citizenry in the form of beet sugar, apparently a poor and expensive substitute. So where supply was cut off, the pressure of the demand side created an alternative product.
Time to out myself here, i’m not impartial in this discussion. I may have asked my partner to stop in at the shops to grab biscuits for a sweet snack. My brain demanded sweetness, and I delivered… well, my partner delivered…