I think it’s much more complicate than that. Real estate (with regards to real people that are looking to live in their purchase and 90% of time are taking out a mortgage) is so highly leveraged, non reproducible and has people bidding not just against each other, but betting on where they are going to be financially…

I was talking about the US, but to do it for the world:

Wages rose significantly during the Clinton era. True low unemployment for a long period of time can cause it to happen (unfortunately it also requires job mobility - which is plummeting).

On the flip side, things are getting drastically cheaper. So maybe cost of living will balance decrease in pay (maybe?)

I would be shocked if truck driving is a job in 19 years, and the salary for any driving job is going to collapse in 10.

There are two problems with this whole conversation:

I can see this happening on the google play store (where an app can be live minutes after submission), but it takes literally weeks for an app (or an update) to get through the apple store. If a real live person isn’t looking at it, what the hell are they doing?!?!

You should really remove that last line for the Expanse description. That’s a massive spoiler for people who haven’t read the books.

The more I think about, the more I think the core problem was that he split the story into 3 (Ray, Casino world and Escaping ships). Empire split into two, which was cool, but three meant the movie was too long and too jumpy.

I agree, the idea was okay, but it looked way too much like: “Look at me! I’m flying like superman!” I think I would have rather had them blow out a hole in the bridge and Leia use the force to move something and block it up.

When Luke jumps out of the carbonite chamber in Empire, it seems like he has to be using the force to propel himself. That’s no jump.

Hyper-space tech is thousands of years old in Star Wars. I think if it can be done, it would have been done long before then.

Well, one thing you could say is that ships go super fast and in real space only for a very brief period of time before they enter hyperspace (where they can go through things). That takes a little of the power out of the move.

I agree. It’s Star Wars, don’t think too much. And making a big plot hole was worth it for the scene.

You are right, it did destroy a bunch of ship behind Snoke’s ship. And those ships were all Star Destroyer size. It was a lot of damage.

We do know that x-wings can jump, so hyper-drives can’t be that big.

Lived in Chicago, probably not far from you (Uptown) many years ago when it was considered a not nice place to live. Same thing has happened to me in Seattle where I live now (no way I or anyone I know could afford to buy there now - most people I know remodel their houses instead of trying to sell and buy a bigger…

You own a house that was stolen from its previous owners.

It’s not quite that bad (a single person can find an apartment anywhere in the US for $250k), but your point is valid.

Cost of living (especially housing) is sooo different from place to place, that any study like this is laughable. $75K in rural Nebraska and an urban city are like different countries.