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I am curious. Please give us more information on what you are referring to and your specific point of view.

anotherhue 2y ago
https://archive.ph/raUZk https://archive.ph/raUZk (originally https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/world/europe/ireland-housing-crisis.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/world/europe/ireland-hous...) Allow me to further point out that 'just live with your parents' requires that your parents be close to your job. However the lion's share of jobs (worth having) are in Dublin. Therefore if you're not from Dublin you don't get the free parents rent, you pay the same $3k that you would rather pay as a mortgage or save as as downpayment, and are then outcompeted by those who were able to avail of the benefit. Therefore what we're seeing is a total destruction of wealth for anyone outside of Dublin. Nevermind the oft maligned truth that your ability to pay €X in monthly rent is insufficent evidence of your ability to pay €0.8X in a mortgage thanks to the new rules brought in after the previous generation a) got their houses and b) ruined everything with bailout debt.
- romafirst3 2y ago
  Article is paywalled but seems to just be a hyperbolic headline in the style of US papers talking about foreign countries. The social contract has not been completely ruptured. I checked last week.
  - anotherhue 2y ago
    There is no longer a path to having a family. Whatever you want to call that then.
    - romafirst3 2y ago
      Are they walling up vaginas? Because that’s the path to having a family.
      - Fraterkes 2y ago
        If you're not going to be charitable and try to adress what the comment you're replying to is actually talking about, why talk at all?
        romafirst3 2y ago
        The article title is just a hyperbolic statement about something. Blocking the path to a family is just another hyperbolic statement that is patently untrue. But in all seriousness in response to your question, why respond at all, the answer I would argue is it is super important to respond. If you don't respond you leave exaggerated statements unchallenged and then people just ingest them without using any critical thinking. There are tons of examples of it happening in the US news media and it does change people's perspectives of what is happening in the world. If left unchallenged a casual reader would just assume that the sky was falling down in Ireland which couldnt' be further from the truth.
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        Fraterkes 2y ago
        Not to be unkind, but that is a very high-minded justification for what was essentially a one-line joke comment.
        romafirst3 2y ago
        Comedy in the service of a strong argument is twice as funny.
        Fraterkes 2y ago
        Tell me then, funny man: what's two times zero?
        2y ago

https://archive.ph/raUZk https://archive.ph/raUZk (originally https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/world/europe/ireland-housing-crisis.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/world/europe/ireland-hous...) Allow me to further point out that 'just live with your parents' requires that your parents be close to your job. However the lion's share of jobs (worth having) are in Dublin. Therefore if you're not from Dublin you don't get the free parents rent, you pay the same $3k that you would rather pay as a mortgage or save as as downpayment, and are then outcompeted by those who were able to avail of the benefit. Therefore what we're seeing is a total destruction of wealth for anyone outside of Dublin. Nevermind the oft maligned truth that your ability to pay €X in monthly rent is insufficent evidence of your ability to pay €0.8X in a mortgage thanks to the new rules brought in after the previous generation a) got their houses and b) ruined everything with bailout debt.

romafirst3 2y ago
Article is paywalled but seems to just be a hyperbolic headline in the style of US papers talking about foreign countries. The social contract has not been completely ruptured. I checked last week.
- anotherhue 2y ago
  There is no longer a path to having a family. Whatever you want to call that then.
  - romafirst3 2y ago
    Are they walling up vaginas? Because that’s the path to having a family.
    - Fraterkes 2y ago
      If you're not going to be charitable and try to adress what the comment you're replying to is actually talking about, why talk at all?
      - romafirst3 2y ago
        The article title is just a hyperbolic statement about something. Blocking the path to a family is just another hyperbolic statement that is patently untrue. But in all seriousness in response to your question, why respond at all, the answer I would argue is it is super important to respond. If you don't respond you leave exaggerated statements unchallenged and then people just ingest them without using any critical thinking. There are tons of examples of it happening in the US news media and it does change people's perspectives of what is happening in the world. If left unchallenged a casual reader would just assume that the sky was falling down in Ireland which couldnt' be further from the truth.
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        Fraterkes 2y ago
        Not to be unkind, but that is a very high-minded justification for what was essentially a one-line joke comment.
        romafirst3 2y ago
        Comedy in the service of a strong argument is twice as funny.
        Fraterkes 2y ago
        Tell me then, funny man: what's two times zero?
        2y ago