Please address the previous comment. You do see how the home ownership rate does not track the total number of people who own a home right? Im worried that a teacher cant interpret the sources they are providing correctly. If we interpret your source the way that you are it implies that there are more homeowners in the US than there are homes. You read the chart wrong.

What it actually says is that out of all the homes in the US polled by the census X percent of them were occupied by the home owner. That is not the same thing as X percent of all people in the country own a home. The homeownership rate can increase while the per capita rate of home ownership decreases.

It has the resources but it is stupid to spend them all. US , Russia, China and Iran would not have enough time to test all the weapons they have and perform hands on training for military.

As far as I know, the absolute majority of people who fled to russia did that from occupied territories

It's first hand information your consumed on Pikabu :)

Sorry about Russia losing. Must hurt.

That is not true.

Oh my gosh. My guy... you're being needlessly pedantic here. I showed you **RATES** by country. Do you understand what that means?

I've taught undergrads, grads, doctoral students for over a decade and, to be honest, you're possibly the most stubborn person I've encountered in my life.

You do you. Good luck. You win! You're the best ever. Whatever.

Men in Ukraine pay a lot of money to be able to leave. They won’t show it on CNN. Those who are not reach enough are taken into meat grinder. This is first hand information. Ukraine force them to stay. Open the border and see what happens.

"accepted"

This chart is as pointless as the UN vote

Weird is that Russia accepted the most of people who fled among other countries.

I guess you didn’t look at your original source again like I asked. It does not track the number of people who own homes. That chart tracked the “homeownership rate” which is specifically the percentage of homes that are occupied by the owner of the home.

Hypothetically If you have 100 people and 50 of them live in a house, of those 50 lets say 25 own the home and 25 rent the home, then the per capita rate of people that own homes would be 25% while the “homeownership rate” as defined by your source would be 50%.

Is it happening on the territories that were taken?

I didn't think there could be something less meaningful than a GA resolution vote until I saw a chart of a GA resolution vote.

(Though in fairness I read that a GA resolution does have the tiniest, barest iota of consideration in international law when it comes to evaluating norms -- worthwhile enough to get a footnote in international court rulings from time to time. Norms are evaluated far more heavily based on the domestic law of parties and their peers as well as, well, norms -- what everyone's just been doing in similar situations for decades.)

Thanks - it makes sense except I thought Apple had more cash than anyone so wouldn’t need to do that at all.

I think you can demonstrate that homeownership is becoming less accessible over time.

... My original comment that seemed to cause you so much heartburn literally showed homeownership rates have increased since the 60s. Take the opinions out of the equation...

Aside from that, I show you the U.S. is better regarding homelessness compared with supposedly "better" countries and you immediately shift the goal post...

>My general impression is that we are heading toward an era where the
majority of people are renters and I think we can expect a further class
divide to emerge between renters and owners.

How can you possibly arrive at that conclusion when your initial complaint was over my source which showed that homeownership rates have actually increased since the 1960s....

You're a hammer in search of nails.

Yes... But why is Uruguay like that when the neighboring countries are not.

Plus, the population shouldn't change very much in this small of a time series.

Night where I live. You too.

The man himself u/perpetualhillman has commented on this thread.

Uruguay has a very low corruption index, one the lowest in the world. Chile is also low, but not as much as Uruguay. That really helps a country to develop

I think you can demonstrate that homeownership is becoming less accessible over time.

I don’t think the america=bad trope is valid though.

From my perspective I think a decline in home ownership is the expected and inevitable result of increasing urbanization and the inherent logistical challenges of building high population density cities. Its a trend that we can observe in most if not all countries. Thats not necessarily bad, its just a societal transition from the suburban to urban.

The homeless rate has been declining, which indicates that the housing situation is improving. However when compared to the increase in rental rates for apartments and the relatively stagnant rental rates for houses we can only say that the number of housed individuals is increasing, we cannot say the number of home owners is increasing.

The links I provided above show the per capita rate of home ownership is declining overtime while the per capita rate of renters is increasing, at least over the last 20 years. Personally I think we should try to reverse this trend, but it may not be logistically possible at our population level.

My general impression is that we are heading toward an era where the majority of people are renters and I think we can expect a further class divide to emerge between renters and owners. This is not unique to America, but rather a consequence of the global trend toward high density urban development and exacerbated by the neoliberal economic policies that have been dominant since the 80s that have caused wages to decouple from the inflation rate.

If you realllly want to argue this, I'm happy to do so. You're cherry picking (aka intentionally arguing). Given your passion (which I admire), I suspect you seem to believe the U.S. is uniquely bad for first-world countries. I strongly recommend that you look at homelessness rates (which you raised as an issue) for the U.S. against other developed countries. You'll find that the U.S. actually performs better than some peer countries (again, despite reddit opinions).

Homelessness (per 10K)

UK - 54.4

Australia - 49.1

Sweden - 36

US - 17.5

Denmark - 11

Iceland - 10

In the U.S. homelessness rates correlate almost perfectly with drug usage rates. I'm not trying to knock people who use drugs, but you can't exactly ignore "other factors" when they don't confirm your perceptions.

You seem (forgive me here) very invested in the idea where US = bad without sufficient evidence. This is a very common reddit perspective.

Also remember to tag your post NSFW.

Living is not just democracy. It have a pretty high cost of life, and not so high salaries nor so much job opportunities. And if you have enough money and don't need to work (nor are worried about corruption or democracy), other countries, at least at the right cities, may give you a better experience.

Uruguay is not bad, but your mileage may vary.

That’s a solid question. Are we talking me personally or on a societal level?

This kind of narrative is really targeted more at investors than it is consumers. The modern investing environment is focused on finding "unicorns" - startups that hit a valuation of >$1B before being listed on the stock exchange.

The problem with this approach extends beyond dodgy statistics. This is the logic behind companies that prioritize growth above all other goals, including profit. But it also means that potential "unicorn" companies are pushed to focus their efforts on areas that will encourage faster growth and not to worry about anything that isn't directly tied to growth. That is how you get tech giants like Uber, Air B&B, WeWork, and the much laughed-at MoviePass, none of which are profitable and all of which are actually old company models sprinkled with just enough technomagic to seem new. Some (MoviePass) fail faster than others, but all of these companies throw investor money into an endless war over user growth so they can justify more investment.