Mark Blyth
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294 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 3 Jul
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So if you have assets that earn income and it's on the state's balance sheet and you can borrow cheaper than you can rent it out, why would you not do that?
You're making money and reducing debt.
Right, exactly.
But you don't have to then build exactly to the standards you do for multimillion dollar McMansions.
There are plenty of ways of doing public housing in Scandinavia whereby normal people and normal incomes are able to afford these things.
You don't have to build in the crazy way that we do that basically shoots prices up.
And we could also work over the long term to work on the supply chains for everything from drywall to heating, et cetera.
We could do much, much better on public heating infrastructure.
There's lots of things that could be done.
It's just that the focus isn't there.
Somebody who's smack bang in the middle of the income distribution who earns exactly the average wage.
Who is that, Mark?
Nobody.
That's the problem.
We live in incredibly skewed times.
That basically in the United States where I live, the top 1% have 50% of all shares.
That basically the wealth in the country is 80% controlled by the top 20%.
So the vast majority of people are not normal.
They wish they could get to normal.
And that's part of the problem.
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