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Planning your life around once or twice in a lifetime events like a pandemic seems pretty wasteful. That's not paying for 95%, that's paying for 99.99%

landryraccoon 6y ago
I have to disagree. I think the stress and anxiety I’ve experienced in 2020 is on the order of the sum of the rest of my life combined. The math works out this way too - global economic impact from Covid is probably $16T in the US alone. If I could have spent half my yearly income in 2019 to have a normal year in 2020 I would take that deal in a heartbeat and feel really good about it.
- admax88q 6y ago
  Sorry to hear that this year has been that bad for you. I don't think your math works though. First off we were talking about individual life choices, living small in a big city and paying to rent services/tools as you need them rather than living on a larger property, owning most of the tools/services you need. This isn't a one time cost, its not spend twice as much in 2019 for a normal 2020, its spend twice as much _every year_ in case a 2020 happens. As for the covid impact, the US GDP was $21T in 2019, there's no way the economic impact in the US is 75% of last years GDP. That's like a civilization collapse level of recession. Lots of business seem to be doing fine, lot's of people are back to work.
  - landryraccoon 6y ago
    It seems to me that renting a home isn't half the price of buying one, and taking an Uber every day can add up very quickly as well. I really doubt that's half as much cost as owning a car as well.
    - admax88q 6y ago
      This isn't about renting vs buying, its about living big and private or small and public. Renting/buying a small home and using public spaces like parks and transit/walking, or renting/buying a large home with your own yard, buying your own car, etc. The large home will serve you much better in a pandemic, cause many of those public options will be closed, but is that worth paying for when a pandemic will happen maybe once or twice in your lifetime?
alasdair_ 6y ago
>Planning your life around once or twice in a lifetime events like a pandemic seems pretty wasteful. It's not specifically a pandemic. It's the idea that it's worth being somewhat prepared to deal with things if a major event occurs.

landryraccoon 6y ago

I have to disagree. I think the stress and anxiety I’ve experienced in 2020 is on the order of the sum of the rest of my life combined. The math works out this way too - global economic impact from Covid is probably $16T in the US alone. If I could have spent half my yearly income in 2019 to have a normal year in 2020 I would take that deal in a heartbeat and feel really good about it.

admax88q 6y ago
Sorry to hear that this year has been that bad for you. I don't think your math works though. First off we were talking about individual life choices, living small in a big city and paying to rent services/tools as you need them rather than living on a larger property, owning most of the tools/services you need. This isn't a one time cost, its not spend twice as much in 2019 for a normal 2020, its spend twice as much _every year_ in case a 2020 happens. As for the covid impact, the US GDP was $21T in 2019, there's no way the economic impact in the US is 75% of last years GDP. That's like a civilization collapse level of recession. Lots of business seem to be doing fine, lot's of people are back to work.
- landryraccoon 6y ago
  It seems to me that renting a home isn't half the price of buying one, and taking an Uber every day can add up very quickly as well. I really doubt that's half as much cost as owning a car as well.
  - admax88q 6y ago
    This isn't about renting vs buying, its about living big and private or small and public. Renting/buying a small home and using public spaces like parks and transit/walking, or renting/buying a large home with your own yard, buying your own car, etc. The large home will serve you much better in a pandemic, cause many of those public options will be closed, but is that worth paying for when a pandemic will happen maybe once or twice in your lifetime?

alasdair_ 6y ago

>Planning your life around once or twice in a lifetime events like a pandemic seems pretty wasteful. It's not specifically a pandemic. It's the idea that it's worth being somewhat prepared to deal with things if a major event occurs.