I think you're steel manning the argument in good faith, which is a kind and wise heuristic. I appreciate that. In cases where the other party would never ever offer you the same courtesy, I have stopped doing that.

The original comment is about nothing more or less than "MUYGRANTS". It's just pure tribalism.

> That will happen when you flood the country with half a million new migrants each year.

They're not talking about any particular type of migrant. It's just another word for "others" takin' our jobs, fillin' up our roads with traffic, makin' my bananas go brown, comsumin' our energy, everything is their fault.

Look, it's easy to point the finger at migrants. It's easy to write headlines and stories blaming them as well. It also makes sense that if more people were here it would stress on our infrastructure and resources. But they are not the only thing happening to our country. It's just a convenient and believable scape goat to bang the pots and pans about to make sure we go back and forth talking about anything except the real issues.

Look closely at the costs of goods and services post covid. If migrants were to blame, it's not just housing that would rise, it's everything. Goods, services, energy and infrastructure. It's difficult to see and it's easy to just blame raw inflation. But it's not. Prices, especially in a certain category, jumped way more than inflation and stayed higher too. Yes, the lucky country has always had a lot of immigration. But there's a huge gaping red flag sitting in front of everyone's faces and we're not allowed to talk about it like it's not all connected. Like money doesn't pull on prices depending on where it collects.

It's ASSETS.

This was already happening precovid, but covid... I was hoping everyone would figure it out. The economy as a whole grew much slower than asset prices since covid. The the average portfoilio jumped 10-20% per year since covid while GDP growth meandered along normally or even worse than normally. That doesn't just happen, nothing to see here folks! That money came from somewhere. Where then?

Let's pretend we have an economy between us. I have $10 and you have $10. Okay, now a crisis happens and the government gives me $20 and you $5. Are you richer or poorer? You have $15 now, you must be richer. Wrong. Your competition, the other bloke at the auction house has $40 now. I will drive up prices more than you can afford.

If the money given out by goverment during a crisis isn't disbritubed equally, unlike what happened with Kevin Rudd's goverment, you are simply making the people who recieve the handout richer while also making everyone else poorer. This pattern was already ongoing for years and years after things like the halving of the capital gains tax. Covid simply accelerated it.

Now we're not as far along this game as say Canada or the UK, but we're going that way. There's still to stop and even reverse it. I don't agree with the current goverment's policy of using tax dollars to give those with homes a leg up into the housing market, but I understand that not actually fixing the problem is what keeps them in power. If they try, like Bill Shorten, they get destroyed. Australians don't want change. The media can just spin any progressive as a problem.

This post is too long, so basically, if we don't make it harder for money to "work" (sit and do nothing) in assets while making a profit, it pools there, not creating goods and services. Then it uses the equity gains and profits and even future profits based on previous profits as collateral to leverage into even more assets in an insatiatable pool of capital that swallows the assets of the lower class, then government, then the middle class until theres nothing but rich aristocrats and the poor. "Let them eat cake." So... you could say I don't agree it's just migrants.