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by nojvek 979 days ago
I want prices to come down, I want affordability to go up . Who cares if wages go up and prices go up even faster.

The question is not what is the price of a house, but how many hours does a median wage worker need to work to afford their house, their car, their utilities, education, healthcare e.t.c

US is slowly becoming a zero sum game as the growth shrinks to ~1%. We need to increase the pie.

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> US is slowly becoming a zero sum game as the growth shrinks to ~1%. We need to increase the pie.

That's what happens in a consumer-driven economy. The idiots never once stopped to ask themselves where the consumers get their money.