Re:Most Germans don’t buy their homes, they rent
by paganel on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:05AM
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I know about the Rust Belt meltdown and also about what happened to Northern England and Scotland during the Thatcher years, but trust me when I'm telling you that high inflation and the whole damn country (nor merely a region) being on the brink of collapse feels at least a hundred times worse.
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Re:Most Germans don’t buy their homes, they rent
by pjlegato on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:14PM
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Yes, I'm sure the collapse of the state was quite terrible. Nobody is trying to diminish the horror of that experience.
The point is that "westerners," even HN readers, are not all a bunch of naive rich people who have never experienced and cannot understand large scale social change.