[chronic71819]

> You're saying the only people entitled to live on desirable land are wealthy assholes coming from afar?

Rich or poor, asshole or not asshole: No one is entitled to live anywhere.

There is only a market price. That's all.

[tomc1985]

Means is a form of entitlement. Free market economics creates massive inequality. That's the whole issue at stake here.

[chii]

But the other side of the argument is that if somebody worked hard, and obtained monies, they should be able choose where to live using said monies. If i found out that wealth gained means nothing, and that the 'mob' penalizes wealth, then people would tend to create less wealth. Would society be worse off then?

[tomc1985]

I don't know but Europe seems to be doing OK

[cowpig]

But this is self-contradictory. When you say "there is only a market price" you are saying that those with money are entitled.

[chii]

But the money obtained through work has a meaning. "Entitled" means to demand without having first "worked" to obtain the necessary resources for said demand.

[mathw]

Welcome to exactly what's wrong with the system! We view somewhere to live as something you have to save for, work for, invest in when it should be a fundamental right.

What's wrong with the housing market is that a housing market actually exists. We should be working to provide food, housing and comfort for all people as a matter of course, not to make rich capitalists who already own most of the wealth on the planet even richer.