Comment on Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success
the_q@lemmy.world 11 months agoUm no. It’s still just greed. Greed grows, prices rise. Making shelter a commodity and a means of financial growth and security was the original sin.
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 11 months ago
Okay, but did something happen that suddenly made people become more greedy? Are people in West Virginia simply not greedy? Did NYC landlords have a brief change of heart in 2020 when they allowed prices to fall, only to suddenly rediscover greed in 2022?
Again, how did it come to pass that shelter became a commodity? What things changed that resulted in it becoming a productive investment?
Greed isn't a useful explanation because people have always been greedy and always will be.
oo1@kbin.social 11 months ago
did the US have more rent controlled areas in central business districts - i guess that would vary by state/county/city?
In the UK there was a lot more rent controls in 40s-60s ish (then varying a bit over 70s) but basically was abolished entirely in the (mid-late) 1980s.