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
I love Kohler’s writing, he’s got this gentle satirisation style that punctuates the sometimes dry topics he covers.
Anyway supply and demand, how about the electorate start realising demand is the problem as well, and maybe we’ll get there. I suppose the problem there is it comes back to the Upton Sinclair quote,
Too few home owners are willing to sacrifice their personal slice of wealth for a more stable national settlement. So the ivory tower grows, so the space on each floor narrows. Such is a downside of Australia’s strong ownership rights largely only enforceable by the already wealthy.