It turns out that unrestrained capitalism leads to the end result that a very few hold almost all the resources. That's because the more money you have, the options you have and can make, and thus every transaction rich do make more money.<p>The rest of us don't have those choices, so our money ends up going TO the rich.<p>Housing is going up because the last 20 years, housing was the big thing to capitalize (aka: price all but the rich out of the market). And then, housing doesnt make money by itself, so they then rent out to the humans whom they deprived access to begin with.<p>But in this housing endgame, rich people have options to remove options from the average people, in which the result is "Rich people profit on the backs of the normal people".<p>And also, this is not a "Germany-only" phenomenon. We're seeing this happen across all the "Western Nations", wherever unrestrained capitalism has reared its ugly head. Even Adam Smith wrote the last 80% of his book about how unrestrained capitalism would do this.. but no economist ever appears to read or heed his words.<p>Also, this isn't some "socialism and/or communism" is the answer post. Neither of them can handle the fact that most of what we create isn't physical matter, but instead knowledge and content. No economic system as of yet can handle the fact that something costs $x million to create, but $0 to copy. But whatever we do *must* be able to handle that respectably to all participants. And alongside that, maximums of what people can own - extreme income inequality is massive scourge to any government and people.