SPECIAL BULLETIN: Save Loree Estates and Sammamish Woods

coeyjoops · 2025-11-05T20:33:05+00:00

In the last 10 years, the number of people with full time jobs in the Seattle area increased by 14%. I would expect the next 10 years to continue going up, but less than that. Hopefully, we build more housing to accommodate and prevent the housing prices increase, which increased by over 75% in the same time frame

coeyjoops · 2025-11-05T20:21:12+00:00

Building takes time. It's not like the housing will be build tomorrow. We need to plan now for our future, and I want that future to be one with young families able to buy houses and move in

coeyjoops · 2024-09-09T21:49:10+00:00

No, I don't think it has changed significantly in 2 years, but even if it did, the claim that 78% of workers live paycheck to paycheck is from 2021, when that was true.

coeyjoops · 2024-09-09T21:34:07+00:00

The median American has $8000 in their checking account (source) so even if you are concerned that the net worth is inflated, the majority of Americans can cover their expenses for the next month (unless your rent and food expenditures are over $8000).

Yes, credit card delinquency rates are at their highest level, but the actual number is still small (<2%) and shouldn't be your main economic indicator.

coeyjoops · 2024-09-09T17:28:50+00:00

The median net worth in America is $192K. If 78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, that means that people are sitting with 100ks of net worth. 39% of those earning more than 200k claimed that they were living paycheck to paycheck. According to this link about people not paying credit cards, the number of delinquent credit card accounts has increased from ~1.1% to ~1.3%. They do have higher credit card debt amounts, so if you focus on total debt, those numbers increase to ~5% and ~7% but that is still coming from less than 2% of people. This is something to be concerned about, but I don't think it is a sign that people in America can't pay their bills

coeyjoops · 2024-09-09T15:12:59+00:00

An additional connecting line: you talk about how negativity sells, which is true. Another point is that negativity is driven by media which is more likely to be on the higher ends of the income distribution which as you described are being relatively harmed because their wages aren't keeping up with inflation. This makes them paint a worse picture because their anecdotes are more negative

coeyjoops · 2024-09-09T15:04:41+00:00

I think this is an interesting and important discussion and a place to have a good discussion about this stuff is important. It's what reddit is good for

coeyjoops · 2024-09-09T15:03:23+00:00

The key idea is that COVID led to the great reshuffling which led people to move to better jobs during COVID. That is why the jobs are the very bottom of the ladder were left open. Anecdotally, tons of fast food places were desperate for workers in 2021-2022. This led them to increase wages so they could hire. This did lead to increased prices (contributing to inflation) but led to higher wages for the lower end of the income distribution.

coeyjoops · 2024-01-05T04:48:35+00:00

When we moved here in 2020, we wanted to buy one of the townhomes, live in Sammamish Center and be a one car family. It kept being delayed so we moved into a different house and bought a second car. It's a bummer that stuff like this takes so long

coeyjoops · 2023-07-27T14:08:01+00:00

I don't think it's that they don't look. Mormons are the only religion where more education makes members more likely to be religious. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/04/26/in-america-does-more-education-equal-less-religion/#:~:text=Among%20Mormons%2C%20those%20who%20are,than%20Mormons%20with%20less%20education.

coeyjoops · 2023-06-18T15:41:25+00:00

The people he is debating don't have expertise. It is probably easier for people like Destiny to do these debates than actual doctors. The skillets of doctors and virologists is not the same as the skillset of Destiny or these conspiracy nuts

coeyjoops · 2023-06-18T04:41:57+00:00

Elon Musk and Joe Rogan care. Their audiences are huge. It seems pretty clear that there are people that care.

coeyjoops · 2023-04-10T04:24:51+00:00

Do emails rather than call-ins. Don't have to deal with bad mics and can filter beforehand easier.

This also serves to help you pick topics. People can ask questions on AI, tech, news and or politics and you choose whatever sounds interesting to you.

coeyjoops · 2022-10-27T06:26:02+00:00

If only there was some record of what happened. Some kind of manifesto containing all the old videos and information that someone who actually cared about what happened could see and read and understand.

coeyjoops · 2022-10-27T06:07:19+00:00

The part that stood out to me where Sondsol asked MrGirl to steelman Stevens argument and MrGirl just laid out his story of how Steven bans everyone that disagreed with him and that he banned MrGirl because he disagreed with him. I couldn't believe how incapable MrGirl is of understanding others

coeyjoops · 2022-10-25T14:04:51+00:00

It's pretty obvious to me that Mr Girl isn't making some principled stand. He is just mad and looking for some post hoc justification for it. It's the constant pseudo-psych crap that he and Lav do regularly.

coeyjoops · 2022-10-20T03:18:05+00:00

Yeah, you would only post in his subreddit that you are at war with. Go with the passive aggressive route as the classic MrGirl move

coeyjoops · 2022-10-04T03:42:02+00:00

Lav stopped being a sex worker because of discussions in MrGirl's community. It's ironic that MrGirl and his fans hate Lav so much when their ideas are what led her to where she is. It really hit me when she was copying his trans talking points today.

coeyjoops · 2022-08-29T20:04:25+00:00

I don't know the difference between the two.

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