In an attempt to deal with an affordable housing crisis, the Dutch housing minister recently proposed a law that would have allowed municipalities to force some property owners to sell their homes only to low and middle-income earners. The problem the policy is trying to fix is one that’s particularly acute in Canada.
No it didn’t. For those 10k years, most people lived under the iron fist of a monarch who owned everything and everyone.
Instead now we live under the iron fist of a government beholden to capitalists who own everything and everyone. Huge change.