rhino wrote on May 6
th, 2015 at 1:06am:
mothra wrote on May 6
th, 2015 at 1:04am:
THink of it this way.
Rhino, do you make 100% more than you did 10 years ago?
yes. My income has more than doubled.
Has its purchasing power more than doubled? Case getting fat from resting...
In 1984 I could buy a house in Marrickville for $40-50k - in in 1992 $180-200k - today... the sky's the limit. (bought one in Canada Bay across the park from the Waratahs home ground for $185k in 1994 - try that now).
In 1984 AWE was around $3-400 a week.... in 1992 $5-600 a week.... (I was EARNING $2k a week then...)
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/australia/wageshttp://www.tradingeconomics.com/charts/australia-wages.pngYou see my drift? House prices started to accelerate away from the ordinary worker's reach from the moment the MADIF was introduced via the introduction of masses of women to the workforce rather than home duties, on the basis that somehow suddenly everyone could afford to pay more since the myth was that 'every home has a double income'....
Market forces.... and oddly enough the very women most 'oppressed' in feminist mythology - those 'trapped' in 'patriarchal' marriages who had jobs and who received affirmative action etc as well on two or three counts - are the winners in the game of dog eat dog in the MADIF (Mandatory Dual Income Family) world of today. It is they, at 60+, who you will see playing the pokies when on holidays at $5 a shot while their non-patriarchal 'sisters' are working Woolies and Coles and behind the bar for an insufficient income to build a deposit with escalating prices, unless their old man - if they've retained an 'old man' in this dog eat dog world of easy come, easy go throwaway relationships with takeaway kids (unlike their patriarchal sisters trapped for life) - is a contractor somewhere earning big bucks and copping tax dodges.
Thus 'feminism' has had the very real effect of inducing poverty in many while helping some to riches, and rather than being a force for equality, is and always was a force for division and inequality in Western society, and not only through enforced affirmative action and so forth but in its deepest failing which was addressing 'equality' on a gender group basis rather than an individual one, in the past three decades or more.
Another social science failure - as piss poor an ideology as 'economics', a demonstrably failed concept with more changes to it than any chameleon.
On that proven historical basis - would you trust any politicians with running your country who was addicted to any of these ideologies?
I don't and I won't.
, yes. Other areas have seen rises below CPI. people like Toenail carry on about asbestos dumps at high prices but people are buying the land in these cases because the area is desirable. Soem one told me the other day there was nothing on the market for under $300,000 in Perth. When i showed him the thousand or so properties in this price range the
in or they werent houses on large enough blocks of land. Expectations have become too high in this country, compare Sydney prices to just about any capital city in any relatively affluent country and Sydney looks cheap by comparison.
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