• FuckFashMods@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Your parents almost certainly voted to restrict the supply of housing so they could artificially inflate their houses value and retire off of their house.

    The causes of the housing shortage are known. We can change it.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Son, one of these days, this will all be yours!

      < gestures at crumbling 1985 tract home in car-dependent community >

      • o_p
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        1 year ago

        1985

        Check out the guy with the brand new house!

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          You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t’ mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi’ his belt.

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      It a little hard to blame them since they were sold the end of pensions and rise of the 401k. Which the bottom 60% of the country has close to zero of and then they can’t make a living wage because the shareholders demand a greater return every year.