> If you don't want to pay a million quid for a house in London, refuse the game. Move elsewhere. Find a different way to get by in life, perhaps even a different country.
People did exactly what you suggest. And the country they moved to was England, and the city, London, which now has 38% non-UK born residents:
Yep. I live there and it's great. Love the transport links.
If I were mentally handicapped and stuck working in a supermarket earning a tenner an hour I'd have long since flipped the table, though - playing when the deck is stacked against you makes no sense.
In the 1960s we had a system that allowed the majority to live in reasonable conditions. Nowadays it's get rich or die trying and no-one seems to really see a problem with this.
People did exactly what you suggest. And the country they moved to was England, and the city, London, which now has 38% non-UK born residents:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...