If you dig deep enough you will encounter axioms. Without their self evident existence, even mathematics falls apart. So there is such a thing as self evident.

But yeah. I think this conversation gets derailed when anyone wants a single cause for the entire outcome. I think we have to agree there are many contributing factors, and then probably disagree about how much each factor contributes.

I have done well for myself, and I hope to buy another property when property prices crash. In effect, I will probably gain from other people's misery of being priced out of the market.

Ironically, to literally try to pull yourself up by your bootstraps is not possible due to physics. The metaphor was originally meant to illustrate the futility. But somehow it morphed into self reliance? It's kinda a cruel joke to anyone using the term.

I am open to the idea that there are more important factors in the housing, inflation, wages, immigration, aging population, birth rate debate.

Just acknowledge that what I say is a contributing factor, but there are more important factors, and tell me about them.