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RE: The Reality Behind the "Economic Recovery".
The "system" as we know it is unwinding. Could be five years, could be 50 years, but it's unwinding. At some point the ever increasing cost of living is going to smash head first into the decline in available jobs... I imagine co-housing will become more and more popular as groups of people join together to buy patches of land and people put clusters of tiny houses or other modest structures together... having "their own" while also realizing cost savings from the scale of "mass" use of electricity, etc.
The number of "working poor" keeps increasing. At some point, the wheels will fall off the wagon...
Me too, I'm old enough to remember when people took in "boarders". I'm guessing there'll be some kind of zoning ordinance they'll pass to outlaw that too.
I've been listening to one of my co-workers lament about his situation in sleepy-little Holland, Michigan lately.
He has a house that he rents, short term on VRBO and the city passed an ordinance that basically outlaws it.
According to my co-worker, one person owns something like 1/3 of the hotel space in the town. Her name is Elsa Prince. She's the mother of Betsy DeVos and Erik Prince. Personally, that's not an indictment or an endorsement, just a demonstration that money and politics go hand in hand and usually take precedence over "the common good."
Holy crow - I had no idea those two were related.
Politics really is an inbred scene now, isn't it?
I used to jokingly refer to the "Dutch Mafia" here in West Michigan.
I still do but only in whispers now.