Higher rent means more people will opt to buy. That's not necessarily a bad thing in perspective. Assuming the other side effect is a decrease in costs due to a lower profit margin.
Most of the time "parents caring for children" is considered a good thing. It only is an issue when there's societal pressure to do otherwise, which is also a good thing.
All of this is just pessimistic complaining. Flip this and be optimistic and you'll find life isn't all that bad. Think about the last hundred years...
* Rich people are still rich and poor people have access to more food, medicine, and opportunity then any time in human history.
* Families have and always should lookout for themselves first. That's the way things work and should work.
* Society is able to support more art then ever before.
* We have computers... HOW are you complaining about one super amazing piece of technology that didn't exist 5 years ago compared to another piece of incredible technology. Seriously? Be more amazed with how far this stuff has come in such a short time.
And like... We're not even in world war 3. Life is pretty good on planet earth, idk where you've been but come on back down.
Hahahaha. There's absolutely nothing in the OPs post that suggests they would be a good CTO or dev lead. That's exactly the counter to the question made by OP.
Software engineering can be hard and it can be tedious, either or neither... I think it's what you make of it. That's one of the most entrancing things about it to me. It's one of the few jobs that's truly "choose your own adventure". There's a thousand ways to solve every problem and you get to decide the difficulty at every turn.