@sAywHAAt5@mnolangray Affordability has been acknowledged for years. It’s how politicians get elected. They need things to be unaffordable otherwise they can’t complain and have you elect them.
My boomer uncle told me to just buy a house and stop renting.
I make $58,000 a year.
The cheapest house in my city is $380,000.
I’d need $76,000 for a 20% down payment.
I save $400 a month when everything goes right.
That’s 15 years of perfect months just to get to the front door.
No car repairs. No medical bills. No emergencies. No life.
Just saving.
He bought his first house at 29 with 3 months of salary.
Then told me I need better priorities.
I genuinely don’t understand why people don’t sell everything they have, move to Iowa, buy a beautiful old house for next to nothing, and start enjoying a simpler, better, and more affordable life.
I think I’m gonna be single for life. I truly do not like men as a species. The way they think is so disturbing to me. I only like them as a concept, entertainment and something to look at.
If you take, as an adult, is ever “one side is completely good and one side is completely bad,” you’re officially a child. Such first grade level thinking.
Wow! How did some random on twitter figure out the whole thing with a meme and experts and economists missed this the whole time?! Since economies started!
@TralleEeEeE@Arewell2716@adammocklerr lol nobody hates anything. We all want New York to do well. It’s in America after all. If New Yorkers want to do “socialism” hats off to you. I on the other hand don’t. So I won’t live there. There are others that didn’t want to live there and they got yelled at for leaving.
AI could generate trillions in wealth in the coming years.
We can let Elon Musk and a few Silicon Valley billionaires become richer and richer—OR we can tax AI and invest in schools, healthcare, and workers.