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There's a lot of quality points on both sides: Side A (market is unfair): NIMBYism, minimum/median wage not growing as fast as price increases, major governmen
by maerF0x0 4mo ago
There's a lot of quality points on both sides:
Side A (market is unfair): NIMBYism, minimum/median wage not growing as fast as price increases, major governmental help to prior generations (inexpensive college, taxes based on purchase price etc)
Side B (gotta make your own way): All property is a privilege not a right (at best you have a _need_ to rent not to own), don't pile in to an overpriced city if wages do not make it make financial sense, lifestyle inflation has very real aggregate consequences (avocado toast, cell phones, global travel etc), people used to live together far more and in less space, yes your wages have declined in real terms but globalization has fought price inflation on goods
- pavel_lishin 4mo ago> avocado toast, cell phones These aren't quality points. A cellphone is a near requirement to function in today's society, and "avocado toast" is just a dogwhistle for people being able to actually enjoy life, instead of subsisting on gruel and grinding.
- zhoBEENG 4mo agoI know multiple employed, functional people who do not own a cell phone. This is absolutely not a requirement. People have simply atrophied in the machine’s embrace. And not being able to afford having someone cook for you and serve you is not equivalent to subsisting on gruel. I could not even conceive of a word in which my parents or grandparents casually paid people to cook for them. People whining about this just comes off as entitled and out of touch.
- maerF0x0 4mo ago> cell phones I more or less agree about it being near necessity, but I guess what i really meant was an $1100 phone on a $100 a month plan, When a $175 phone on a $15 a month plan would suffice.