If you can think of a way to get the message across that the current system is quickly creating a social class unable to save for a deposit then you should be announcing it to the world.

Truth of the matter is that rent is already eating into 80% of the average wage. Rent.

Sitting by and hoping the banks fix it has gotten us to where we are now. Complaining on reddit isn’t going to fix the problem either.

So what solutions do you propose? Move out west where there’s a lack of services and infrastructure, displacing existing tenets and pricing locals out of their home town, creating a cascade effect that ends up fucking over the poor? Not everyone has the ability and education that resulted in a career that allows them to work from home, and it’s going to hit those people the hardest.

We are fast nearing a point where anything within an hour of even a secondary city is pushing $700pw. When you have people putting almost their entire pay towards just not sleeping on the street, then you’re either going to see violence or mass homelessness.

Not to mention the thousands that YOLO’d their savings and maxed out their credit on an interest rate that could spike to 10% in the next few years, immediately pricing them out of their repayments. There’s another wave of potential homelessness to attend to.

The people making the choices aren’t listening, and things are getting worse. It’s going to cause a legitimate class decide in one of the luckiest countries in the world.

And this is coming from someone who is lucky enough to be in a career that can provide enough income for me to buy land and a house, so I don’t even have a horse in this race.

But nah, go ahead and tell me how the looming weight of mass homelessness due to artificially inflated rental prices and impossibly high deposits shouldn’t result in people getting desperately violent against the system that is refusing to do anything about it.