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The David McWilliams Podcast

2024:06 The Problem of Success and Why We Need To Change Our Minds

The David McWilliams Podcast

David McWilliams

News & Politics

4.6643 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ireland wasn't ready for the economic success we have experienced over the past 40 years. However, with success comes more social responsibility that the Irish government hasn't been able to meet. We weren't ready for the combination of a population boom, multinational investment, income to rise, and housing demand to increase as a result. We are now at an inflection point. We have no choice but to reframe our society and how we look at housing, the other option is social chaos.

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It is time for the podcast. How are you? I hope all is going well.

1:40.2

We're going to be talking about Irish housing, Irish demography, and the fact that Ireland now,

1:46.3

for the first time in 200 years, is a country with a rising population, not a falling population,

1:53.3

and the implications of that for housing in particular, the implications of that for housing in particular are enormous.

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A postcard that was posted on the 22nd of June 1977.

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