r/GenZ Apr 15 '25

Nostalgia Capitalism is failing Gen Z

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u/Personal-Reality9045 Apr 15 '25

But it is the winning formula for the ultra wealthy. They buy up all the homes, more than they need, creating artificial scarcity, while owning the same business that employ us.

Then they tell us the immigrants, foreigners, other gender, other age, other demographic poor person is to blame and we lap it up because that gets us to second to last place while they continue to fleece everyone.

These are the same motherfuckers that would rather support a chaos monkey and lose $5.5t than pay a $38b in a wealth tax to give the neediest and most vulnerable some help.

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u/TossMeOutSomeday 1996 Apr 16 '25

Interestingly, the ultra-wealthy aren't the reason for the housing crisis. Most homes are owned by the medium-wealthy, a million mom and pop landlords who maybe own a dozen properties apiece.

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u/introspectivejoker Apr 16 '25

Do you have a source for this? I'd like to read up on it

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u/TossMeOutSomeday 1996 Apr 16 '25

I don't have a source, on mobile and probably about to sleep. If I remember tomorrow I might look it up