• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    yeah but that’s like, entirely counter to the core concept of how this shit works.

    And old house is not more valuable than a new house, unless new houses are getting shittier and shittier over time, which last i checked, they aren’t.

    I would classify an investment as the explicit example of putting money into something, that you expect to do well, in such a manner that you can realize returns on that investment, normally this does not entail using something. Buying a house, and then living in it for example, is not an investment. Much like buying a car, driving it, and the selling it, generally does not make you money. It can if you hit the market in certain places at certain times, but this is more speculative investing than anything.

    And again, shouldn’t apply to houses on account that there should be like 100 million houses in the US at the very least, any time where speculative investment becomes a thing, it’s because there is low supply, and high demand. This literally should not be possible for housing. And if it is, it’s about as moral as trading people for money.

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      2 months ago

      Oh yeah for sure. The fact that houses are allowed to be investments is obscene

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        2 months ago

        gotta love economics, i still fail to see how housing is any different than a car, and the fact that they’re treated differently is just weird.