@Noahpinion If housing didn't go up (or at least as much), couldn't one use the savings to invest in stocks to build wealth? Would it even be fair to say that housing crowds out other forms of more productive investment?
Washing clothes by hand is also tiring work if you have a load, but it’s still physical activity & exercise. We spend time in the gym & running outside to keep fit; would it be so bad to devote some of that time & energy to washing clothes by hand?
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JD Vance acknowledges the cat and dog stories are urban legends and then rationalizes it (via CNN): “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."