Not sure we would be having this discussion 20 years ago. Nowadays, everyone's talking about inflation because it's visible in consumer prices, but there's been massive inflation in real estate since 2008, which has greatly benefited the people who already owned real estate, and people who had other types of capital they could borrow against (pretty much for free because of low interest rates) and buy real estate.
I think it's kinda normal to want to own real estate (yes, also as a product of our society), just like it should be considered normal to pay rent to somebody because you don't want or can't afford to buy a property
Well, I would be - but many probably not. Most people only think once they are in pain, rather than thinking so they don't end up in pain.
It is normal, in the economy we have created. But the economy is designed for wealth generation, until it consumes itself.