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so crazy that houses are not considered consumables. they absolutely are! does anyone believe that by living in a house we are granted an automatically self-rep
by blueprint 4y ago
so crazy that houses are not considered consumables. they absolutely are! does anyone believe that by living in a house we are granted an automatically self-repairing house? if not: it's a consumable, just one that is consumed, in the general case, over more than just a few minutes. there are other factors that contribute to its "consumption" other than it falling apart, being used, and otherwise needing repair. the march of technology, for example, contributes yet another factor to its decline in relatively value, at a perhaps increasingly fast rate
- wutbrodo 4y agoThe cost of maintenance of a structure is far less relevant than the value of the land underneath it.
- RhysU 4y agoContemplate letting your house rot, fester, and fall then tell us that such deterioration is immaterial to the value of your holding relative to other, well-maintained properties.
- wutbrodo 4y agoI'm quite sure you're misunderstanding the purpose of this conversation and thread. When people talk about housing prices spiking, and that not being included in inflation, they're pretty much exclusively talking about _land_. To the extent that the structure itself gets more expensive, that's captured in increases in maintenance and construction costs, both of which are captured in inflation measures. It's utterly beyond me how you could interpret my comment as anything close to "you shouldn't maintain structures". Please make an effort to fully understand a comment in the context of the broader conversation before posting gibberish.
- trinovantes 4y agoHouses may be consumables but the land that they sit on certainly isn't
- blueprint 4y agoyes it is...? how is it any different? it can be consumed.
- trinovantes 4y agoIt's not a consumable because you can't duplicate a piece of land at a specific location. House prices go up because they are located on land that is becoming more desirable.
- blueprint 4y agoI dont understand how that is relevant to something being a consumable. A consumable means it can be consumed. mine a resource or use the soil, etc ., ... and you're using it up.
- trinovantes 4y agoLand and houses are intrinsically linked. You cannot consume a house without also consuming the land it sits on. Therefore you can't realistically call a house a consumable.
- blueprint 4y agowhat on earth are you talking about lol