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Re:Australia's Housing Frenzy by sgt101 on Saturday November 25, 2017 @12:07PM (#15776745)
Money isn't infinite, fiat currency is a token of future tax raising power.

The solution to the rich hording everything is taxation and redistribution.

Re:Australia's Housing Frenzy by conanbatt on Saturday November 25, 2017 @12:53PM (#15776957)
> The solution to the rich hording everything is taxation and redistribution.

How did that work out in countries with almost 100% tax and full distribution policies?

Re:Australia's Housing Frenzy by sgt101 on Sunday November 26, 2017 @04:36AM (#15780170)
The lesson is that extremes and monocultures are generally failures. Moderate and diverse economies are probably better fit to long term success; in the short run ideology can generate massive benefits - like war communism did. I would argue that many of the economies of the developed world have swung far to far toward plutocracy and injustice.
Re:Australia's Housing Frenzy by Spooky23 on Saturday November 25, 2017 @01:46PM (#15777225)
Mostly, they laundered their money in the United States!
Re:Australia's Housing Frenzy by SturgeonsLaw on Saturday November 25, 2017 @08:24PM (#15778962)
Surely there is middle ground before we get to 100% taxation?

"I don't get it, people like drinking water but they don't like drowning"

Re:Australia's Housing Frenzy by conanbatt on Saturday November 25, 2017 @10:02PM (#15779237)
I'd say that if the solution to the problem, given unlimited solutions, made the problem worse, then it will also fail in smaller applications.

"The only reason I am in debt, is because i can't ask for a big enough loan"