A decent proxy for how much we value youth labor is minimum wage, and we've kept it purposely pretty low. If it had just kept pace with productivity, it'd be about 23 bucks a share, but we've decided to purposely keep it low. Out of reach, median home price has skyrocketed relative to median household income. As a result, pre-pandemic, the average mortgage payment was $1,100. It's now $2,300 because of acceleration in interest rates and the fact that the average home has gone from 290,000 to 420,000. By the way, the most expensive homes in the world, based on this metric, are number three, Vancouver. Why? Because 60% of the cost of building a home goes to permits, because guess what? The incumbents that own assets have weaponized government to make it very difficult for new entrants to ever get their own assets, thereby elevating their own net worth. This is the transfer
私たちが若者の労働力をどれだけ評価しているかを示す適切な代用品が最低賃金であり、私たちはそれを意図的にかなり低く抑えている。生産性と歩調を合わせれば1人当たり23ドル程度になるはずだが、私たちは意図的に低く抑えることにしたのだ。手の届かないところで、住宅価格の中央値は世帯収入の中央値に対して急騰している。その結果、パンデミック前の住宅ローン平均支払額は1,100ドルだった。金利が加速度的に上昇し、平均住宅価格が29万ドルから42万ドルに上昇したためである。ちなみに、この指標に基づくと、世界で最も高価な住宅