The parasites desire to return our lives to 19th century industrial revolution living standards where entire families lived in open communal basement spaces with only a broom closets worth of space to live in then immediately say your life is still better than the 19th century because at least you have hot chips, T.V., and a smartphone to doomscroll on.
Right, they’re not the core of the problem, but they’re the thing you’re most likely to run into when you want to live outside the paradigm of “taking up a big expensive chunk of land for yourself and forcing everyone to drive a bit further by pushing them farther away”.