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It’s only a problem if those women don’t settle for the men they date. If they would, the balance would always be restored:

Top 20% of men settle with 20% of women. A new top of men takes over replacing the old one.

The main issue is that relationships don’t last. And that has to with the 20% of men not wanting to settle as they have free and abundant access to sex, which has been historically the primary reason for men to settle.

On top of that men are at their prime way longer than women: easily between 25 and 45. Women lose perceived value as sexual partners after 30/35 by many men.

Can we add to that the effects of the birth control pill? Women on the pill have a different attraction profile than without the pill. Their body thinks they’re pregnant and they settle for men with lower testosterone.

Many women report that after stopping taking the pill they no longer like the smell of their husbands.

Both can coexist. Smell/compatibility might not be noticeable until you’re already initiating the romantic relationship (kissing, intercourse, sweat smell).

You get closer, if necessary to the point your lips almost touch their face. What millions of people have done during decades. And that’s the point, yes.

Private landlords have been my worse experience. Both in Germany and out of Germany. They ignore the law, they try to avoid fixing things, or they fix them badly.

My last rental with a big company was perfect: they even skipped asking me for rent deposit, my work contract was enough. Their maintenance team was full time dedicated to maintain the same buildings, so they knew perfectly how to repair everything, they were quick and diligent. They knew if they didn’t fix it right, they would have to do the work again.

Economies of scale is what allows these big companies to offer better prices and better service than private landlords.

Do you know which big city recently solved the rental price problem? Buenos Aires, by just removing most of the rental housing regulations.

It can be solved, you just need to do it without ideology. Die Linke is not that type of party, quite the opposite.

Do you know why there was not homelessness in the DDR?

Because it was forbidden by law. You were forced to be put in an institution or directly went to prison. Check Section 249 of the DDR Criminal Code.

And by the way, the DDR suffered from chronic housing shortage. People were cramped in barracks with not bathroom and no heating. Technically housed but in actually povert level of housing. It was an absolute disaster.

The only reason you enjoy cheap food is because of the free market.

Housing in many countries is not part of a free market but part of a monopoly where the government decides how much, how many, the what and the when the houses can be built. If it was a real free market, the issue would have been long solved.

My cheapest and best experiences when renting have been always from big corporations due to economies of scale.

Fighting against these companies will only drive prices higher. It is stupid.

I just bought a house in Germany. It will remain unused for around 6 months due to renovation. It is naive to believe that any empty house is empty due to speculation.

My grandmother died some years ago, my family wanted to sell the house as they didn’t need it. It took 3 years to sell it because it’s in a location with no demand plus 6-12 months to arrange the inheritance legal details. You would say, the price was too high then! It was sold for €30K, a garden farmhouse with 6 bedrooms, garden and garage.

It’s inevitable that some houses are out of the market for some time due to many different reasons.

The main reason new housing is extremely expensive has to do with regulations themselves.

It costs a lot of money to build a new apartment building because land where you are allowed to build is regulated by the State. Also the State requires many regulations that increase unnecessarily the costs, and most of all in the name of the ideology.

For example, housing standards of Japan and the US, which are way cheaper and still serve two of the richest countries in the world, would never be allowed in Germany. That makes housing unaffordable and drives people into poverty.

Obviously after 36 years many people of Die Linke were not alive when the wall fell. But it’s still the same party as the SED, just a different name.

The CDU and the CSU have nothing to do with the NSDAP.

At some point in time in Germany 30% of the population were either part of the NSDAP or the Nazi Army. Luckily most of them were not war criminals and move on with their lives. And yes, some of them ended in the CDU/CSU but also of the SED/Die Linke.

Just to give you an example, around 10-15% of the DDR state officials had held NSDAP membership pre-1945.

Does that make the DDR a successor of the Nazi Regime? Obviously not. The same about the CDU/CSU.

But Die Linke is still the same party as the SED. Same organization, which just voted themselves into different names.

Unfortunately solving the housing crisis will remove any incentive to vote for the Left or the Socialist Party.

Remember the first incentive of any politician is to remain in power not to solve citizens problems. Sometimes there’s overlapping, fortunately.

The logic is defined by demand. Currently Berlin is under high demand, and that’s why drives prices up. On top of that many rents, around 12% are paid by the job center, which also drives prices up. That’s around 250.000 housing units paid by someone else’s money. That’s the scandal.