What the image mentions was true for a few decades and for a minority of humans only. Home ownership is still at a very high level compared to what it was even 100 years ago. Hell, you should know that if you’re from the UK, people used to live in towns that were developed and owned by the factory owners, that’s how they managed to move people from rural regions to the city so quickly, outside of that, housing in the city was no better than the slums we see all over the world these days.
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NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 4 days ago
How is that not true anymore? Here in the UK home ownership is increasingly a dream for the younger people so guess what - you’re 100% reliant on work/pay to make rent
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Christobootswiththepher@lemmy.world 4 days ago
If you go back far enough, weren’t 100% of homes privately owned?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Pretty sure that from the moment we got organized as a society with a leading class, home ownership hasn’t been 100%. At the same time it’s the fact that civilization exists that lead us to the point we’re at now instead of us still being hunter-gatherers…
Aux@feddit.uk 4 days ago
No. That was never a thing.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 4 days ago
When I was a child to my early twenties, we had holidays, we did a lot of cycling, we went skiing…all of this achieved on a low level bank and car factory employee wages.
I couldn’t afford to do that for my partner and step children. The comment above yours paints it as being pain and less pain. You’re on the right lines but you’re misinterpreting it.