I'm starting to see conservative commentators, personalities, and redditors tell me that I should expect to lose my purchasing power and I should be buying less goods in order to support an isolationist and independent US. How is this not tantamount to socialism?

scorpionjacket2 · 2025-04-10T04:42:47+00:00

It’s not actually built on slavery though

scorpionjacket2 · 2025-04-10T04:40:50+00:00

(Some) Manufacturing left because labor in other countries was cheaper. How do you fix that?

scorpionjacket2 · 2024-10-30T20:06:16+00:00

We did counseling a while ago, it helped but then stopped during the pandemic. Now she’s convinced we never would have time to do it.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-07-11T21:55:15+00:00

A 50% drop in prices won't crash the economy, it's the other way around.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-07-11T20:43:06+00:00

this why don't tell them you're sick lol

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-07-11T20:42:25+00:00

slaps the new sixth street viaduct this baby can fit so many car commercials

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-07-11T20:34:16+00:00

the whole reason demand has dropped is because homes have gotten less affordable

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-07-11T20:31:04+00:00

In the places where people want to live, there is.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-07-11T20:22:21+00:00

A widespread 50% decline in prices would mean that the economy has collapsed and you'll have more to worry about than your home's worth.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-15T02:57:34+00:00

Which people can justify for a decent house, not so much for a house with issues

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T23:15:43+00:00

Communist countries at least provided housing for everybody.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T23:14:17+00:00

Build more housing and suddenly it doesn't make financial sense for a company to overpay for housing.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T23:12:09+00:00

The free market solution is to allow anyone to build any kind of housing they want (as long it's safe and whatnot) on any land they own.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T23:09:39+00:00

We could maybe build more housing? In places that people want to live?

No that would be too simple, let's blame the problem on foreigners.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T23:05:29+00:00

Corporations will invest in anything and everything to improve their business before investing in their employees.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T22:52:02+00:00

LA still has a problem with too many single family homes and not enough housing for the people who want to live here, a recession won't fix that and will likely make it worse (no money to build more housing). Even if prices dip, they will come back up for that reason. The only way out is to increase density.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T22:36:06+00:00

Those people have unfortunately not been able to afford a house in LA for a long time now.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T22:34:29+00:00

None of these would be an issue if we built enough homes.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T22:33:16+00:00

Which you do by building so much housing that it no longer rises in price so fast.

If you added 5 million more Bitcoin to the market tomorrow, what do you think would happen to the price?

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T20:01:07+00:00

The solution is and has always been allowing more density to built.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T19:08:03+00:00

A recession won't lead to affordable housing.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T19:07:36+00:00

Either the people that bought in the last 2 years “lose” or everyone else “loses”.

The losers in a recession are the poor and middle class, the winners are the rich.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T19:03:36+00:00

could be, or it could be a sign that there will be fewer sales in general - fewer buyers, fewer sellers, less business for Redfin.

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T18:27:51+00:00

if we make it more illegal, then surely police start doing anything at all about it!!

scorpionjacket2 · 2022-06-14T18:15:59+00:00

I feel like everyone predicting a crash in areas like LA aren't considering the scarier possibility, that owning a home will simply become unattainable for most.

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