“Bury your head in the sand like we did! Don’t worry, your privilege will save you!”
Delete your post, mate.
The only thing most people talking about climate are selling is the idea that we should keep the planet nicer than we’ve been keeping it. With the climate situation being what it is, only Big Money is telling anyone to “ignore it” and saying that just tells us what side you’re on.
> As a young person who will get older you will have the chance to buy a home
I bet Social Security will be there for us too, huh?
This is a dangerous lie. i can’t tell if it’s just utterly useless, or if it’s actually a psyop designed to sow complacency in the populace.
Olds and the rich have been using this language to manipulate the rest of us for years. It’s finally coming to light that no, it’s not true, and it was never going to be true for us.
We have the data. Home ownership is only getting further out of reach for most of us.
> everyone did before
And this is where we see that your idea of “everyone” is limited to land owners (now where have I heard land ownership and personhood equivocated before…?).
That kind of thinking will only make more of the mess that we have to clean up.
The US home ownership rate has bounced around about 65% for decades. There was a temporary spike during the real estate boom that ended in 2006. Now we're back close to the usual rate.
> Homes are only expensive if you want to live in a popular urban area.
Compared to the past, homeownership is expensive nationally, and the general trend has long been up although there wasa a sharp, temporary reduction from the late 2000s financial crisis [0]. Sure, there is regional variation, but that doesn't mean that national prices are relatively static.
Prices are meaningless on their own. What actually matters to most buyers is availability of financing and total monthly housing expense as a percentage of income.
The median home price in the US is something like 300-400k. You’re on HN so I assume you’re in a tech-related field. If you can’t afford that in 10 years you’re doing something wrong.
Why would you think social security won’t be available? The literal worst case scenario for workers today only has its effective benefit being reduced to 70/80%. And let’s all remember we’re talking about funny money here not gold bars locked in the governments treasury. If they want social security to stay solvent they will just print it to solvency and remind us all again that printing new money into the economy doesn’t cause inflation.
Delete your post, mate.
The only thing most people talking about climate are selling is the idea that we should keep the planet nicer than we’ve been keeping it. With the climate situation being what it is, only Big Money is telling anyone to “ignore it” and saying that just tells us what side you’re on.
> As a young person who will get older you will have the chance to buy a home
I bet Social Security will be there for us too, huh?
This is a dangerous lie. i can’t tell if it’s just utterly useless, or if it’s actually a psyop designed to sow complacency in the populace.
Olds and the rich have been using this language to manipulate the rest of us for years. It’s finally coming to light that no, it’s not true, and it was never going to be true for us.
We have the data. Home ownership is only getting further out of reach for most of us.
> everyone did before
And this is where we see that your idea of “everyone” is limited to land owners (now where have I heard land ownership and personhood equivocated before…?).
That kind of thinking will only make more of the mess that we have to clean up.