[anotherhue]

https://archive.ph/raUZk

(originally https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/world/europe/ireland-hous...)

Allow me to further point out that 'just live with your parents' requires that your parents be close to your job. However the lion's share of jobs (worth having) are in Dublin. Therefore if you're not from Dublin you don't get the free parents rent, you pay the same $3k that you would rather pay as a mortgage or save as as downpayment, and are then outcompeted by those who were able to avail of the benefit.

Therefore what we're seeing is a total destruction of wealth for anyone outside of Dublin.

Nevermind the oft maligned truth that your ability to pay €X in monthly rent is insufficent evidence of your ability to pay €0.8X in a mortgage thanks to the new rules brought in after the previous generation a) got their houses and b) ruined everything with bailout debt.

[romafirst3]

Article is paywalled but seems to just be a hyperbolic headline in the style of US papers talking about foreign countries.

The social contract has not been completely ruptured. I checked last week.

[anotherhue]

There is no longer a path to having a family. Whatever you want to call that then.

[romafirst3]

Are they walling up vaginas? Because that’s the path to having a family.

[Fraterkes]

If you're not going to be charitable and try to adress what the comment you're replying to is actually talking about, why talk at all?

[romafirst3]

The article title is just a hyperbolic statement about something. Blocking the path to a family is just another hyperbolic statement that is patently untrue.

But in all seriousness in response to your question, why respond at all, the answer I would argue is it is super important to respond. If you don't respond you leave exaggerated statements unchallenged and then people just ingest them without using any critical thinking. There are tons of examples of it happening in the US news media and it does change people's perspectives of what is happening in the world. If left unchallenged a casual reader would just assume that the sky was falling down in Ireland which couldnt' be further from the truth.

[Fraterkes]

Not to be unkind, but that is a very high-minded justification for what was essentially a one-line joke comment.