[TheCoelacanth]

We are living in the richest and most technologically advanced civilization ever to have existed. Life is supposed to be easy.

The failure to ensure that basic needs like housing are available at prices that are affordable to average people is a clear and unforgivable failure by policy makers.

[gdix]

And they say millenials are entitled...

> We are living in the richest and most technologically advanced civilization ever to have existed.

That's always true at any given moment in time. 100 years ago, someone was living in the most technologically advanced civilization but they still had to budget. We're not in star trek the next generation yet.

[TheCoelacanth]

We managed to have affordable housing 50 years ago with vastly less wealth and vastly inferior technology. We should be able to manage it now. The fact that we don't is purely due to the utter failure of our politicians to manage housing policy in a way that benefits the average citizen.

And given that this is a democracy, yes, we are entitled to have a government that operates for our benefit. That is not too much to ask.