@Wejolyn I noticed this in the fourth grade. When I brought it up to adults they said "shut up kid." Except my maternal grandfather. Even he said "probably better not to notice."
An electrician with 22 years of trade experience brought his entire enclosed work trailer into a local pawn shop this morning.
He had $18,000 worth of commercial-grade Milwaukee and DeWalt equipment loaded up.
He lost his sub-contracting business last month after three general contractors defaulted on payments and walked away without paying his open invoices.
The shop owner offered him $3,200 total for the whole trailer.
He stood in the parking lot and said: "If a blue-collar guy misses three invoice payments, his business collapses, his credit is destroyed, and he sells his tools for 15 cents on the dollar."
Meanwhile, the commercial real estate firm that built the empty office building down the street defaulted on $45 million in debt.
Their punishment? The lender modified the loan, froze interest payments, and gave them $2 million in emergency operating capital to 'restructure.'
Small-scale labor gets liquidated instantly.
Corporate debt gets shielded forever.
@Ankara_inc I know a guy in his forties. Modest house paid for, thirty year old pickup he fixes with a screwdriver. Has fun local weekends hiking and camping. His life path was dropping out of high school at sixteen and becoming a paid plumbers apprentice.
@0xdavecryps When a property changes hands the property taxes often go way up. This must be passed along. Property taxes and insurance go up on private homes not just rentals.
MY DUPLEX IS BEING SOLD, AND APPARENTLY MY NEW LANDLORD THINKS THE HOUSE GOT $800 BETTER OVERNIGHT.
Current rent: $1,335.
New rent: $2,145.
No renovation. No upgrades. No improvements.
Just a new owner buying a place that already has tenants and deciding the rent should jump by $810 a month.
That’s nearly $10,000 more a year for the exact same home.
This is what happens when housing gets treated like an investment vehicle instead of somewhere people are supposed to live.
The tenant gets priced out.
The new owner gets a bigger return.
And the neighborhood absorbs the damage.
Call it whatever you want.
But when someone’s housing becomes someone else’s profit margin, the person living there is the one who pays for it.
A guy in my neighborhood brought up his home insurance renewal at lunch today.
He bought a modest starter home 4 years ago for $290,000.
Locked in a 3.2% mortgage rate. Monthly principal & interest: $1,250.
He thought he was set for life.
Then his annual home insurance bill came in today: up 62% year-over-year. Property tax assessment jumped another 25%.
His monthly escrow payment just went up by $510 a month…… an overnight 40% hike on his housing costs without his interest rate changing by a single basis point.
He looked at me and said: "I worked my whole life to lock in a fixed-rate mortgage so my housing costs wouldn't go up, and the local government and insurance cartels just priced me out of my own home anyway."
We didn't just inflate home prices.
We built an economy where even when you successfully escape high interest rates, holding onto basic shelter gets taxed and insured until it consumes your entire paycheck.
“GEN Z DOESN’T DRINK.”
“GEN Z DOESN’T DATE.”
“GEN Z DOESN’T BUY HOMES.”
“GEN Z DOESN’T WANT KIDS.”
“GEN Z ISN’T HAPPY.”
Maybe ask what they walked into first.
• Graduated into a global pandemic
• Started careers as AI began reshaping entire industries
• Watched home prices and borrowing costs explode
• Faced years of stagnant wages and rising living costs
• Got hit with student loans while rent kept climbing
• Spent formative years isolated from friends and classmates
• Grew up under an algorithm constantly selling them a better life
• Watched massive wealth accumulate while millions lost jobs
• Inherited climate problems they didn’t create
• Were promised the American Dream and discovered the price tag
Then people wonder why they’re making different choices.
But sure…
It must be the avocado toast.
Remember Janet Ossebaard? The fearless Dutch researcher who dove headfirst into the deepest rabbit hole and dragged the global elite’s darkest secrets into the light.
In 2020 she dropped the bombshell documentary series “The Fall of the Cabal”, a relentless exposé that later expanded into over 30 parts. Janet didn’t hold back. She exposed the full spectrum of hidden control: central banks, shadow governments, media manipulation, and satanic networks at the highest levels.
But the part that hit like thunder? PIZZAGATE. In the explosive “Children, Art & Pizza” section, she laid bare what she called a worldwide child trafficking and ritual abuse machine. Coded symbols, elite “pizza parties,” disturbing “art,” underground networks, and patterns linking politicians, Hollywood, royalty, and billionaires to horrific crimes, including adrenochrome and satanic rituals. She backed it with documents and survivor testimonies that woke millions up to the nightmare.
Her calm narration made the unthinkable impossible to ignore. The series exploded across Bitchute and Rumble, fueling the Great Awakening like few others.
Then the tragedy. In late 2023, after publicly stating she would NEVER commit suicide, Janet was found dead in Sweden. Official ruling, overdose.
Janet risked everything to expose the monsters and fight for the children. Her work lives on.
@seventyw30 The government is not supposed to "run" the country. The Federal Government is supposed to operate a Navy for Defense and keep the postal roads open. Not joking those are the only lawful duties of the Central Government!
@JamesMelville The Amish have been right all along about how technology is actually a trap. We work years for shiny junk we don't need and spend at most a feww weeks on vacation paid for by credit cards!