AFR wunderkind Mark Di Stefano pretends to care about the housing torture of his generation.
But as is the case with so many Millennials et al, the pursuit of change is cancelled when ideology overwhelms sense.
In recent days, Matt Barrie has delivered several knockout blows to the national conversation around housing, clearly directed at helping save Aussie youth.
But the AFR’s Rear Window author and hypocrisy monitor was having none of it, deploying a dizzying array of whataboutism and gotcha garbage instead of amplifying the message he purports to support
Sydney and Melbourne ranked 3rd and 4th in the world for foreign born population by count, in the 2016(!) census. However beating numbers 1 and 2, London and New York, by percentage.
Yet some wonder why we have a totally out of control housing and cost of living crisis. https://t.co/qdBw9ONrQx pic.twitter.com/Qn1eQBYyg4
— Matt Barrie (@matt_barrie) October 3, 2024
Matt turning you brain into soup by blaming immigration for Australia’s ills, rather than its incredible amazing asset is on you.
— Mark Di Stefano (@MarkDiStef) October 3, 2024
Barrie’s presentations are phenomenally well-researched and evidence based yet De Stefano ignored the lot.
Hypocrisy much?
Meanwhile, De Stefano’s own paper continues the abuse of his generation:
The complexity of housing, and the lack of silver-bullet solutions, will dog whichever party, or parties, form government after the election.
As Barrie argues, there is a silver bullet solution: it is to slash immigration to zero so that supply can catch up and rents reverse.
Prices will rise for while anyway as the cash rate collapses but that will stop soon enough as demand and supply come into balance.
If these kids are not careful, those that still give a %$#@ about their fate will give up out of shear frustration with their ideological self-sabotage.
