a nation where housing has been migrated from a human necessity to an asset class
Shelter is a necessity, and “housing” is only one hideously expensive and inflexible way to achieve it. It doesn’t return very much when you compare the work to pay off hundreds of thousands of dollars for the privilege of being stuck in one spot, compared to improvising some materials together for a couple of hours and having the rest of your time free to do real non-wage-slave work.
But it’s not really “entitlement” when your whole population is conditioned to engage in some wasteful practice for the (somebody else’s) economy. /s
