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@shavixmir saidAbysmal?? You must be speaking of the people who want to be poor…. could you elaborate?
Oh, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Luxemburg, etc.
I’d put the US in the same tier as the UK and various former UK colonies: extremely good for the wealthy, abysmal if you are lower middle-class / working class and a complete lack of coherent investment in infrastructure.
Although, one could argue, that the German road system isn’t as good as it should be.
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@AverageJoe1 saidNo he’s talking about the people who can’t afford to compete with billionaires for housing.
Abysmal?? You must be speaking of the people who want to be poor…. could you elaborate?
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@AThousandYoung saidThe average person competes with billionaires for a house. Interesting.
No he’s talking about the people who can’t afford to compete with billionaires for housing.
Are you one of those person who is just eat up with worrying about how much money and how many houses rich people have? Are you one of those people that thinks that has something to do with you? Please elaborate.
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@AverageJoe1 saidI don’t know what “elaboration” you want. If you want more info I can help you find relevant reading material but why waste words repeating what I already said?
The average person competes with billionaires for a house. Interesting.
Are you one of those person who is just eat up with worrying about how much money and how many houses rich people have? Are you one of those people that thinks that has something to do with you? Please elaborate.
Here’s some reading since you asked - not that I expect you will be able to read or understand it.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716220981864
We return to our original questions of whether local income inequality generates homelessness and, if so, what is the mechanism through which it does. Our results are clear in showing a link between local income inequality and homelessness, and our IV estimates suggest that this relationship is causal in nature.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/wall-street-has-spent-billions-buying-homes-a-crackdown-is-looming-f85ae5f6
Wall Street Has Spent Billions Buying Homes. A Crackdown Is Looming.
Lawmakers say investors that scooped up hundreds of thousands of houses to rent out are driving up home prices
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01402382.2018.1561054
Housing prices and wealth inequality in Western Europe
Gregory W. Fuller, Alison Johnston & Aidan Regan
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@AverageJoe1 saidPeople want to be poor?
Abysmal?? You must be speaking of the people who want to be poor…. could you elaborate?
You just be crazy man.
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@AThousandYoung saidIt is only natural that in a test group of people, a society, that income inequality would mean that some people have more money, net worth, than others. Is that not the def of being inequal? So you might elaborate on that, since it is so obvious that I don't know why you say it.
We return to our original questions of whether local income inequality generates homelessness and, if so, what is the mechanism through which it does. Our results are clear in showing a link between local income inequality and homelessness, and our IV estimates suggest that this relationship is causal in nature. [/quote]
To close your post, should you not tell us if you are thinking that income should be equal, and how that might be accomplished?
Please. Why can there not be cogent conversation like this withou cute comments or meanness. You are not talking to the disliked AveJoe, but rather the forum as a whole. I just pose the question. It is your subject, after all.
Respectfully yours,
Av Joe
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@no1marauder saidI tend to agree, though I wonder if it's different in the US since the President controls the entire bureaucracy. Maybe it takes a little longer to transition all the functioning of the administrative agencies?
The UK had an election on Tuesday. By Friday, the head of the winning party was sworn in as Prime Minister.
The US has a ridiculously slow transition period for both Congress and the Presidency based on the long travel times needed 230+ years ago. It seems to me a bipartisan solution to this travesty would be a good idea, reducing it to say a month at most. There's no ...[text shortened]... d out of office should still be determining policy months after their electoral defeat.
Thoughts?