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Supply and demand is created by the rulers when they create the money supply. Their decision for the past decades has been that money should be created by real estate mortgages and thus there has been an immense shift of wealth to the elderly and real estate owners. Being head chef in a successful restaurant is an incredibly hard skill, but with financial consequences such as the poster you're replying to. Borrowing money at the right time and doing absolutely nothing or the bare minimum has had a much better return than working hard and becoming the best of your trade. That's why so many are dropping out of the regular work force and entire industries are collapsing right now. Is that sustainable in the long run? Are we all to sit on our asses, borrow more money and wait for inflation of real estate value to pay for us? Because, that has clearly been the most successful career as long as I remember.



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