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 GM NOSTR 🔥 The Canadian housing market is an unaffordable nightmare - and government is the biggest culprit.

https://v.nostr.build/YVZd.mp4 
 GM 🫂☕ 
 Gm Julian 
 A nightmare is unwanted. A debt spiral is exactly what the government wants. It's all going according to plan. It's a dream come true for those who wish to consolidate wealth and power. Plus, everyone who owns a home votes for higher prices. At every level, this is voluntary. Otherwise people would be actively looking for a way out. They are not. 
 👇Don't get me started!🤬👇
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 Welcome to communist Canada 🇨🇦  
 You are not alone, #Switzerland is the same shit. 
 Quiet true in my experience too in southern Europe. Each region has its particularities, but at least building should be done easy for long time residents. 
 1. People in the west believe in shitty govt programs.
2. To finance these programs, they have the state impose a central bank that effectively has the ability to print up money and loan it out at below market interest rates.
3. To protect themselves, people stop saving in currency, and start leveraging themselves into assets, like housing, effectively changing a home from a place to live, to an "investment".
4. To protect their investments, people start to put an immense amount of pressure on the system to up their property values, such as permitting, land use, and zoning laws.  
5. This makes housing unaffordable to large populations, and creates a homeless problem. 
6. To "solve" this problem, people demand more govt programs.  Go to step one, rinse and repeat.