[rland]

In some sense, the nostalgic "factory worker buys house" thing is quite a short anomaly in (post-agriculture) human history.

I think there is something of a complacency that people have about inequality. They assume that because progress ratcheted forward in the 19th and 20th centuries, that we can never regress.

I think it's not true, and I think if we are not vigilant, our world will return to a neo-feudalism -- with the accompanying misery and lack of social and technological progress.

This should alarm all of us, even those who are lucky enough to have a handhold on the property ladder.