If rich people can profit from huge crises, why can’t the rest of us?
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House prices: they’re high, despite interest rates also being high, because rich people have been given huge amounts of money by the UK’s Tory government. They’re using it to buy assets.
Gary Stevenson’s latest video discusses the reasons for house prices staying high even though interest rates have been high also. TL:DR – It’s because rich people have lots of cash to splash around.
The question raised in This Writer’s mind is: if rich people can take advantage of the crises we’ve suffered over the last few years to get richer, how can the rest of us manipulate events to make ourselves richer too?
There has to be a way, don’t you think?
Here’s the video:
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The difference is, if ordinary people find a way to benefit from calamity, the Government would immediately introduce new laws to stamp it out. When people who already rich find ways to benefit from calamity, they are applauded for “ingenuity”.
I reckon that’s absolutely right.
How do we get around it, then?