>>60652480>It's the primary reason housing is more expensive nowHousing could be expensive or free and it wouldn't change my point of view that no one should own more houses than they can live in. My statement is not bound by political ideology, but by the laws of pragmaticism.
>developer rantI genuinely don't see how you're relating this to the topic at all.
>slaveryI do actually unironically advocate for the return of slavery, and I am honest about that. I believe a majority of humans are actually happier that way, because as soon as their physical shackles are removed they seek out or create metaphysical ones and jump right back into servitude. I would contest that you lack the ability to argue against it without relying on flowery poetic platitudes.
None of that is related to this discussion, though.
>these statistics are pretty accurateAhh, yes, the good old "our free press and their deceptive propaganda." I didn't get the shot during covid so things like that don't really sway me.
>What now?I continue to posit that the statistics are meaningless because the definitions of words are changed on a whim without the statistics taking that into account. The fact that rates stayed the same from 1890 to 1940, then jumped 20%, then went right back to stagnation, should tell you that the change in the 40s was more likely definitional than anything else.
If you have a mortgage, you don't own your home.
If you pay property tax, you don't own your home.
I don't care what the statistics say on this issue.