It's more like I'll have capacity to help the elderly when I've paid off the huge student loans they dumped on me, got a house in the ridiculous market they setup and found a job worth having in the labour market they built...
That, too. My uncle could buy his house for 3 months of salary. It was cheap and made from wood and he had to put in lots of work to make it nice, but good luck just buying the land nowadays for that price.
That said, the horrible housing market is in my opinion mostly due to foreign mafia/dictator/oligarch investment through shell companies. The most expensive areas in London are all sold, but empty...
