Access to basic housing should be a right in a country like Australia.
The problem is that by transferring wealth from boomers to younger people, you push up house prices.
Lowering deposit, pushed up house prices. CGT and negative gearing pushed up house prices.
That's why we will vote them out
A young SpaceX employee asked Elon what happens if they fail to reach Mars in his lifetime. The room was full of engineers and the question landed heavier than anyone expected.
It was a simple question but it cut to the core of everything SpaceX exists for. The entire company, every late night, every exploded prototype, every engineer who missed their kid's birthday for a launch window, it all points at Mars. What if it doesn't happen in time?
Elon paused.
He said that the goal was never for him personally to walk on Mars. The goal was to build the infrastructure that makes it inevitable. That even if he dies before the first crew lands, the system he built would carry the mission forward without him.
He said the rockets, the factories, the team, the culture, all of it is designed to outlast any single person. Including him. Especially him.
Then he said something that reportedly moved people in the room.
He said that if he thought success depended on him being alive, he would have already failed. The whole point is building something that doesn't need its founder to keep going.
He compared it to a cathedral. The architects of medieval cathedrals knew they would die before the building was finished. They designed it anyway. They poured their life into something they would never see completed because the completion wasn't the point. The commitment was.
SpaceX is his cathedral. He may never set foot on Mars. But the road between here and there will exist because he refused to accept that nobody was building it.
The most ambitious man alive has already made peace with the possibility that his greatest achievement might happen after he's gone. That's not failure. That's faith in something bigger than yourself.
Why is it so hard to believe?
This country is fucked, everyone that i know is voting for one nation HOW ABOUT YOU LEAVE MY country I didn't sign up to 50% born overseas.
In another 25 years thay will be 70% and we will own nothing, be a minority , and you'll be wondering what happened to your country
Post 8/8
The "Lucky Country" egalitarianism is gone. Richer in raw GDP but poorer in soul—high trust, cultural familiarity, and peoplehood destroyed. Old-stock Aussies a declining, resentful minority telling stories of the nation that used to be theirs. Wake up before it's too late. End. 8/8
Sorry but adding a small deposit on the end of 30 years of absolutely disgraceful policy made by the liberal party's finest. Which turned Australia's homes into a Ponzi scheme.
Is not unexpected. It's been 30 years of scam!
How is a normal PERSON renting for $700 a week? AND saving $200k or $300k for a deposit?
Go hard Karl,
Over the last 25 years I have had very little to do with your shows etc.
But guess what. I also am very similar to you and I still feel grounded and mainstream. I talk to hundreds of people around Australia every year and they are all feeling the same as you. Keep it up. Because we all feel the same.
You can be one of the leaders to fix the mess Australia is in. Common sense. Not consipiracies. Go hard on YouTube, podcast your radio shows.
You'll do well if you stay open minded and talk to the spectrum, left, right and centre, along with city vs country.
@Christie_Whelan We ae doing it because the duopoly doesn't care about us.
And immigration is so out of control. We don't care if she destroys the country.
Some things are more important than money
House prices rise because of low interest rates AND lending being too easy, and investors knowing they can just charge more rent if rental vacancy rates are low.
That is the only thing that can allow house prices to rise. And also first home buyer programs, and reducing the deposit amount.
And printing billions of dollars and running NDIS at the same time.
That's why house prices rise. And record migration.
It's a shitshow