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35 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 25 Jul \ on: The Aussie/English/American Kids are NOT Alright(Financial Times, Burn-Murdoch) econ
My guess is that it’s due to English being the lingua Franca so the global feed of psyops is concentrated in our native tongue.
believable, I guess
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Just my initial thought. Otherwise you also need to explain what English has to do with housing prices.
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I had a housing econ professor once who said it had to do with geography: all these cities (Vancouver, Sydney, LA, San Fran, New York) are on the coast, meaning some portion of otherwise buildable land is sea -- so less land than, e.g., Austin or whatever
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Only English speakers like water?
I know of some literature about the natural supply constraint of water (somebody tell the Dutch) but not international comparisons.
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Only English speakers like water?
Yes, obvs... Are you some kind of racist?!
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Very curious. You know, I'm something of a geographer myself. Perhaps I'll look into this.
id also be interested in knowing why the correlation in English speakers, housing affordability and young adult mental health is.
it probably is a mix of this
global feed of psyops
and the fact that kids these days are just dont understand struggle.
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Would the English speaking connection there be that these are the wealthiest places on Earth so they have the most coddled children.
We could test that by seeing if the pattern holds in South Africa, which is English speaking but not super wealthy.
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