We know that any given habitat, like the Earth, has finite resources and has some upper bound to supporting life. This is how those pressures manifest. We can’t just keep growing the population and have everything be affordable. Surging food, energy and housing prices are the first feedback mechanism in this process.
If everybody can afford everything forever, we get infinite population growth.
Your characterization of bad things happening is exactly my point - you’re just failing to understand that I’m saying that’s the healthy part.
This is exactly backwards; both across and within countries, richer people have fewer children.
You’re pointing to a correlation which has no bearing on the future.
No, this is the point you’re missing: your presumption is predicated on being able to meet everyone’s basic needs cheaply. What I’m saying is that this is not possible, and that high prices are the feedback mechanism.
I don't think it's disturbing because "clearly the top 2% of income earners should be entitled to housing," but because clearly everyone needs housing, and if the top 2% of earners can't even afford it, that means it's even worse for everyone else.