This comes as no news to me - I've been thinking stuff like this for years. Once slavery was abolished in the Western world it's as if there's been a long search for a suitable replacement. After factory work and keeping deliberately low wages for the working classes to keep them under control (although most factory work has now been moved ashore to India and China etc.) - what better way to keep the middle classes working away than to get them tied to a mortgage? Just so long as there isn't a house-price crash like there were plenty of in the 80s - (thanks to Thatcher's mis-handling of the economy). There seriously needs to be a middle-class revolt of some kind - but so long as they're so successfully brainwashed into thinking they're all doing so well and are so successful -it only takes a plasma TV and a SUV - nothing is ever going to change.
Until that next crash at least...
Britons forced in to 'modern day slavery' by soaring house prices
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