If I hear another Boomer conservative bitching about Gen Z ordering DoorDash I’m going to become a communist. It’s true their grandparents always cooked homemade meals. But that’s because grandma stayed at home and grandpa had a union job and nobody could reach him after 5. They had a house with a full kitchen and 3 kids by 25. Meanwhile half of Gen Z men are forced to compete with the entire population of South America for some 12 hour long shift HVAC job that barely pays the rent. They’re 30 and nobody cooks for them because they can’t find any women who’ll marry them when they can’t even afford a starter home in the ghetto. The other half of Gen Z men are busting their ass competing with the entire populations of India and China for some 70 hour a week powerpoint job that asks them for updates on the slides at 3AM. They can’t find anyone to cook for them either, because every women around them is convinced that being a mother and cooking for a man is beneath them because they’re gonna save the world when they become VP of Marketing at MegaCorp in 20 years.
Not to be dramatic but I don’t think people quite understand how much of a disaster eliminating USPS would be. Like it would be end-of-this-country level of a disaster
The average person should rent forever and I say that as someone who builds homes for first time homebuyers a living.
Ownership is sometimes romanticized in this country to an unhealthy degree. People drain their savings, steal themselves to a 30 year mortgage and then spend every weekend doing maintenance on a depreciating structure they can't afford to leave.
Meanwhile the renter down the street has liquidity, mobility and zero exposure to a $15,000 HVAC or roof replacement.
A paid off house in a town you hate is a prison with a mailbox. I build homes because I love real estate, but I'd never tell someone to buy one just because society says they should.
Listen, there are plenty of people out there that homeownership makes sense for. Just not as many as society makes you believe.
I’m not even going to hold your hand when I say this, but the data centres are not for your dumb AI chatbot. They’re for a global mass surveillance system, and it starts with those cunting Flock cameras.