The top 10% of earners—households making about $250,000 a year or more—are splurging on everything from vacations to designer handbags, buoyed by big gains in stocks, real estate and other assets.
Those consumers now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989, according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics. Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%.
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I grew up in the country side working on farms. Post covid I can’t even afford a house there because boomers priced me out. My expectations have been meager my whole life. It took me six months to land a shitty 60s falling down 2 bedroom place during our housing crises. In Australia many people get evicted after 12 months and lose their savings to moving costs. You Americans need to stop telling people from other countries what to do.
That’s fine. Instead of arguing against building and improving housing outside of major cities to increase the supply, you could be arguing in favor of it?
That way, there’s more supply to meet the demand. This should (in theory) reduce prices because there’s more to go around for the people who want to buy it.
The only way expansion works I’m Australia is if we build new cities like what they have in Europe and US. Commuting 3 hours to work is not feasible for anyone.
Slow and steady. Major cities don’t pop up overnight anywhere.
You need to be willing to appreciate a more modest lifestyle and perhaps make less money overall in the process, though. I don’t expect you to give up your entitlement to luxuries and you’ll look for any argument to justify why you deserve more while others have less.