Seth Walsh
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1/ Irish housing is now a class filter, not a market.
Work income no longer reliably buys proximity, independence, dating access, or adult life.
2/ Rent at 40–50% of gross salary means the wage is fake.
You are not earning a life.
You are renting permission to keep working.
3/ The winners are not “hard workers.”
They are asset holders, inheritors, protected public-sector incumbents, landlords, and people born before the ladder was pulled up.
4/ Living at home in your 30s is no longer personal failure.
It is the visible symptom of a broken capital structure.
5/ The brutal rule:
Salary gets you survival.
Assets get you dignity.
Family balance sheet gets you freedom.
6/ Ireland did not run out of intelligence, effort, or ambition.
It ran out of affordable entry points into adulthood.