Economy & Banks

If you are saying that you think people should do strangers a favour at their own massive expense then you're bonkers.

I'm saying 'treat others as you would be treated'. The middle classes harp on about the ridiculous inflation of house prices, whilst simultaneously demanding ridiculously inflated prices for the houses they want to sell.
"Their own massive expense" goes down and down and down once people collectively realise that they don't have to participate in a race to see who can borrow the most money.
It's like Spike Lee whinging about nouveau Brooklynites having fancy dogs, whilst simultaneously demanding a $15,400,000 profit on the sale of his Manhattan townhouse. He's the exact 'problem' he's whinging about, only on a far larger monetary scale.
There's a middle ground, a point at which people can be reasonable. A point at which the relative monetary value of things makes sense. We need to get back to it, before the next generation of non-aristocrats are priced out of almost everything from education to home ownership (if indeed they actually want to own homes).