Inflation steals from everyone. But it's worse than that - rising property prices steal from the young and disadvantaged people.
Ridiculous. The young are more than compensated for inflation with rising wages. Did you ever work? Did you get raises? Were you raises keeping up with inflation? Or...
Funny... somehow young people's wages haven't kept up:
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Lol, you're gauging the standard of living by house prices? That's your basket?
Bro, do you realize that population has at least doubled since you were a kid? For house prices to stay the same, we'd have to make houses smaller (we don't) or colonize another planet for moar, u know, 4 Lebensraum
And the price of rice in China is... lol Seriously, explain to me why house prices have to be smaller? Are we running out of land? Are your kids getting smaller?
Did you think real estate prices are going up because there's a greater supply and a lower demand? If twice as many people need to share this planet, each one of us would, naturally, get a smaller slice. Since selfish pricks like myself aren't willing to let squatters onto our land, that means the rest needs to be divvied up into smaller parcels still. So TL;DR yeah, real estate prices are going up. It has nothing to do with FRB or inflation, and everything to do with increased demand without an equally greater supply. To somewhat make up for it, a ...computer, let's say, costs a bit less than its equivalent did in the 90s. Basic stuff again, bro, I shouldn't have to explain this
I lived in NYC for a big chunk of my life. Rent is pretty brutal there -- I'm sure I was paying a bigger portion of my income for my apartment than some guy in Iowa. Though I wouldn't say that my standard of living was lower.
See how things work?