[yters]

The doomsday argument implies it will also be steep, but in the other direction, making real estate not so valuable.

[tgb]

I don't think anyone is planning their retirement savings based off a 95% chance of the only being 2 trillion to ever live - even at 10 billion living people you're looking at thousands of years for that prediction to be relevant.

[stale2002]

I certainly hope so.

The biggest expense that the average person pays for is rent and home mortgages.

The world be auch better place if a >1/3 of everyone's paycheck wasn't going to rich landlords.

[fred_is_fred]

Why not move somewhere cheaper? You don't have to live in SF or NY or Seattle to work in tech.

[stale2002]

Things work fine for me, because I am in tech. It is everyone else that I am worried about.

Housing costs are the biggest transfer of wealth in the world, and the higher costs are, the less money there is in the average person's pocket.