Having grown up in Australia I agree with everything you say. The percentage of property parasites as a % of the working population is staggering.

Agree with all except maybe this:

> It's a deliberately created problem by tying the money supply to housing as an effort to decrease the population.

I don’t think there’s a grand evil plan. it’s just people acting selfishly, on selfish incentives. It looks similar around the world because property rights and local planning controls look similar around the world, a huge number of such systems derived from common old Europe roots