One of the reason that many people oppose the big box stores is that they move into an area, undercut the comptiiton, then slack off on customer service and start raising rates.
Yes, I agree with your assessment. And it is the Social Justice movement that is fueling this move. Social Justice is just an euphemism for “Redistributive Change.” In the Church this is acceptable, because people willingly give their money. But if the Government is doing it, they are taking from one to give to another. I liked the Robin Hood movie, but I’ve seen Robin Longstride, and Obama is no Robin Longstride!!
To you, which is the most evil and worst Social injustice of today? The poor, the disinfranchised, the glut of the environment, immigration, war? It wouldn’t possibly be abortion, euthanasia, homosexual marriage, embryonic stem cell research, cloning, would it? I thought not. Bernadin’s Seamless Garment theory is the cause of misunderstanding what the Church ( Rome) is really saying. What many of our liberal, progressive Bishops and clergy call Social Justice.
Redistribution of wealth, this only happens because the greedy have taken the biggest slice,
Do you mean the greedy people who want more house than they can afford? FYI my home was only equal to about 2 yrs wages.
That says your wage is higher than average,
No, it means I bought a smaller more reasonably priced home that I can afford. Buying a house at 8 times your annual wages is just irresponsible.
No, it isn’t fair that others are not earning their keep and are instead leaching off the fruits generated by others.
No, this happens when certain people steal from people like me, because they are too lazy to earn it themselves.
There is no such thing as “a society without greed”, and there will always be people like you who justify stealing from others.
There is no such society in existence. Never has been, there never will be. Even in societies that have tried this (communist Russia, Germany, North Korea, etc, etc), there are flagrant abuses where there are those who have huge mansions and cupboards full of food, while the poor continue on being poor.
Actually, the median home price in 1950 was about $14,500, and the average salary was about 3200.00, which means that a house cost about 4.53 times as much as a person’s salary. In 2007, the median home price was about $229,000, and the average salary was about 50,000.00, which means that a house cost about 4.58 times a person’s salary.
If we go by the liberal math, we’d all be in deep doo doo. Thank God we each have brains that we can figure these things out for ourselves.
Of course it’s fair. If I work harder than you, and you get paid for doing nothing, do you think that is fair? Yes, you probably do.
THOSE WHO EARN THE LEAST , work harder .landlords and moneylenders do not work. others work while they, the landlords and moneylenders live the good life.
How do you think they got the funds for the innitial investment? Do you think the magic home fairy just handed it to them?
Sometimes its through hard work, sometimes its from relatives or inheritances, and sometimes they borrow a lot of money and get lucky.
And most of the time they go to school, get good grades, work hard, make a little, invest wisely, make a little more, invest that…And if they don’t do anything risky or stupid they have a decent savings to invest in property.
Do you have some data to back this up?
You need something to back up the obvious?
INNITIAL INVESTMENT. now you are talking, I have spent 12yrs helping victims of landlords and moneylenders, during that time I have photographed real estate advertising, it really is incredible that nothing is done. one advert that stands out,
THERE IS NO LUCK INVOLVED just blind greed,
Christ said “forgive them father they know not what they do”
Maybe if we actually looked at the data it might not be so obvious. There are many places where wealth comes from, sometimes people become wealthy from hard work, sometimes they have wealthy parents or have connections, sometimes people just get lucky. Now, the real question is: what proportion comes from which source? You want to assume you know something, yet you don’t want to back it up with data?
While we cannot ignore the issue of greed in the marketplace, it is always going to be there, we cannot look at all market transactions as symptoms of greed.
How can this be any less fair than the fact that my students pay most of my bills, my food, my gas, my property taxes? While I agree that there are plenty of sleazy landlords out there (as well as sleazy tenants), there is nothing in the transaction that makes it inherently unfair.
I am not aware of real estate appreciating 400% in a short time, but if you want to give me a specific location, I can check into it.