So propping up the housing market by keeping population artificially increasing or keeping wages low by hiring lower paid foreign workers isn't bad for the working population? What about increasing crime or cost to the government. Both of which have been recorded in government stats (though one is Danish).
"The capitalist" if anything want immigration. You want higher wages, better jobs and cheaper housing you want less immigration.
You're all blinded by what you wish the world was like.
Its actually a really interesting article. But it goes against what people want to be true with what is actually true.
People are down voting this because they want to live in fantasy land. Can we not actually upvote things that are informative and in areas where people knowledge is lacking. This article can be a learning point for you all or you can all live in denial.
Unfortunately a healthy housing market is surprisingly a good thing. It's like when house prices collapse it's actually a bad thing because the reason that happened is worse than the result on the house prices (e.g. 2008). People look at the system far to simply, do not understand it and make the wrong judgements. It's the problem of a little bit of knowledge being a dangerous thing.
Because there is no value it building a house because there is no value in buying one.
Many many people have talked about the issues of price caps. It's been done to death. Go look up a podcast, YouTube video, book, seminar, webpage of your choosing and find out why rent caps are bad. They will do a better job of explaining it than me and you can consume the information in the way you want.
Personally I would like some big changes to be made. Easiest of which would be a land value tax which would increase homes and decrease prices. Or much more radical things like destroying parts of cities. Unfortunately I don't make those choices. So reading the information here is showing the opposite of what you think it does and in the system being used is good news.
Unfortunately for Lemmys a professor of economics knows more about the economy than they do. He is making the housing market healthier and they don't like that.
If you're speaking about the USA in 2008 that's a bad example compared to Argentina here, yes?
I was trying to show an obvious example of how decreasing house prices can be a bad thing. It's an similar example, it is not the same. I was hoping to show you how just because something on the surface appears to be good it can be bad.
You can use that throwaway line, but if you are making an argument, you have to defend it.
“That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” (Christopher Hitchens).
What a horrific misuse of that quote. I'm talking about economy theory that has been well studied. Evolution doesn't need to be proved every time it is mentioned why does this? At this point you need to assert against general consensus.
Okay right. With price caps total homes, now and in the future for rentals added to ownership decrease. This can put pressure on prices to rise overall for rentals and for home ownership.
Where did all the renters go that no longer could rent because the landlords removed so many units from rental markets? They have to live somewhere. Where?
Parents, friends, the street, foreign countries some of them would have gotten a home certainly but not all. At this point you will really need to be digging into the data and things get complicated and hard to count exactly.
I see your confusion now. The market is not over saturated, that's the mistake you are making in your thinking. It's a supply and demand curve. More people would rent if it became cheaper when it becomes more expensive less people do. Frankly it is as simple as that. Less people get to live where and how they want as cheap as they would like that's why rent control is so awful. This effect can put a similar effect on home ownership. People that can, then buy when they don't want to at a price they aren't happy with in a location they don't want. Some people just can't afford to buy a house when they once could. It just fucks over the whole market and pretty much everyone is less happy.
You seem interested in it. Go investigate. No point arguing with some random guy on a forum, go look at some quality content.
Not all rentals will become purchased homes. From a people living in it point of view homes disappear off the market. The problem also gets worse and worst over time, assuming the population of the city is increasing.
I'm tired I'm come back later and re read everything and see if I need to explain anything better then.
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I actually meant grid level expansion. But that too.
All they have done is free market supply and demanded the grid. That's why Texas has more solar than any other state, the market is working. Though it does have some downsides.
"Last year, Texas overtook California in large-scale solar power capacity. When huge amounts of solar power rush onto the grid, batteries tend to follow. Now, Texas is building more grid batteries than California, the longtime undisputed leader in clean energy storage."
Its wholesale prices, it's what they do. Same in Europe same in Australia.
Texas looks fairly middle of the pack with decreasing prices. Compare it to another state with high levels of renewable and California is second highest after some islands and has increasing prices.
But this website has the lowest economic literacy I have ever seen. It's really dangerous that people might think the majority know what they are talking about.
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Europe really needs to get a handle on this. The left don't care and act like it is not an issue, the centre is profiting off it because they own the land and the businesses. The longer this goes on there becomes two options. Europe becomes a third world country or Europeans vote for someone that will actually do something. I would love a left party to actually act on all these immigrants but they won't and their parties are hemorrhaging voters. Going to be an interesting decade for politics.
I lot of people look at this and say its just too much material for it to have happened.
But we know of projects that have used more man power. The London to Birmingham railway line took 5 years to build and moved more material than the great pyramid and we know exactly how that was done. The size of individual pieces does add complication, but the absolute quantity and manpower is not unexplainable.
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Not exactly what you want but I heard about people in the military practising things and they learn. "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast."
By doing that it makes you quicker. Sometimes when I'm late and start rushing I end up forgetting things or knocking things over or dropping. So I take a breath and say slow is fast. Also my career history is big on "right first time" doing something twice is a huge waste.
Also I remember Adam Savage said he got close to death (or was getting close to being rescued from death) then he told himself "Calm people live. Tense people die." and he managed to free himself.
Taking a moment might not just save you time or money it might save your life.
I have always called a light top with a full zipper to be a jacket, however the people I'm surrounded by insist on calling it a sweatshirt. I'm prepared to be wrong, just wondering if I'm the only one.
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I heard a big one is location. If your mate just came back from Asia and talks to you about it and you then see ads for holidays to Asia. It's because if the location proximity to him, not the conversation. They just assume you would talk about it
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In the UK there was a peaceful protester and the Chinese dragged him into the embassy grounds and beat him in front of the public. They have diplomatic immunity.
Nothing was done obviously.
No wonder China and Russia shit over us and act like we are weak. We are. We proved it multiple times.
WW2 was about containing the USSR. Even before Germany fell Churchill was warning about Russia. He wanted to free Eastern Europe before the Soviets got there. But the Americans cared more about glory and wanted to capture Berlin so Eastern Europe was abandoned.
Silence of opposing views should never be allowed especially when they it is a significant democratic voice. Otherwise there is no way to stop it from happening to you.
If the right were doing this to the left people would be screaming fascism.
Obviously someone that hasn't spent much time in a factory and don't know what they are talking about.
Sure you got to go through all the safety requirements but that's not a skill.
I've seen job were people load material into a machine and people box finished good, or people destroying WIP, or people moving material, or picking up WIP.
You are just confidently incorrect. A skilled job is something where you are trained and/or have experience in and it takes a long time to teach and learn. Unskilled is were you can grab people from the street and get them working within a day.
Surely you can see why based on supply and demand and cost of training both for the person and the business that unskilled pays less. Why should they be paid the sane as skilled work? It doesn't make sense.
Well if you change the definitions of things then anything can mean anything.
I don't know what you expect. The fundamental reason unskilled labour is paid less is because basically anyone can do it. You can call it whatever you want but it won't pay the same amount as skilled labour, or whatever you want to call that.
Not everyone no, some people have severe mental and physical disabilities.
Everyone that showed up could do the job in that amount of time from what I understand. Some people left because they didn't like it and some people had issues with authority or we lazy and wasn't asked back. But there was a revolving door or temps coming through and no one seemed to struggle.
As much as the fat kids and the kids that have no will power and blame their lack of drive on others could benefit from structure, teamwork and exercise.
You're right, ultimately it is too late and it just trying to fixing a failing of the state. We need to give these people more attention in school and turn them into better people than what we turn out of schools currently.
The only thing you can really do is have new experiences.
For too many people the decades look the same. No wonder time flies when you do the same thing day in day out because you don't remember anything about them.
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Is it a sweatshirt or a jacket? ( lemmy.world )
I have always called a light top with a full zipper to be a jacket, however the people I'm surrounded by insist on calling it a sweatshirt. I'm prepared to be wrong, just wondering if I'm the only one.
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