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  • No, correlation does not mean there is a relationship. That’s the whole point behind “correlation does not equal causation.”

    Read some of the ludicrous correlations people trot out to illustrate it. Two things occurring at the same time do not have to be related.

    And no, I couldn’t use that meaningless population statistic to make the argument that oligarchs (lower case “o”) are destroying everyone else’s ability to have a family. Arguments require data, not correlations.


  • people who live longer take longer to pass on their house to their children; the older generation have also used housing as an investment vehicle and/or purchased second/holiday homes; and the elderly are typically the most likely to object to new housing developments, blocking their construction.

    I don’t know anyone who inherited a house.

    I don’t know anyone whose parents own more than one house.

    I personally have objected to a large condo building that was planned on an unstable hillside with only a steep alley for access - cuz that shit was stupid in so many ways and a disaster waiting to happen.

    Where is this huge population of wealthy old people who own multiple houses, and where are all these young people who are inheriting houses?

    Just maybe we should be getting pissed at job insecurity, ruinous healthcare being used to chain workers, and falling wages for the source of wealth inequality…. Pretty hard to buy a house when your boss makes 500x what you do. (He’s making all that delicious money off you).