@DTAFantasy @DisavowedVet Swinging a hammer in 1982 brought home the same money it does now
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Jake Evans
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@DisavowedVet Swinging a hammer in 1982 was no different than swinging a hammer in 2026. You're no better than anyone cause you punched a clock dude. And your mustang needs paint.
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What you missed
Preceeding generations worked harder than you, and knew how to live within their means, and save for a home
The reason the percentagages drop, is that each successive generation has become worse at it
Until you get gen Z, who have to spend $30 on lunch because they don't know how to cook their own food
....and are lazy as hell, going by the ones I've worked with - before they get canned
TheUnusualSuspect@beerandtokens
This misses the damn point. By 30, 48% of Boomers owned a home. 42% of Gen X owed a home by 30. And only 33% of millennials owned a home by 30. And Gen Z is on pace to be around 25%. The American Dream of homeownership is collapsing. Why is it so hard for people to admit that attaining life necessities are exponentially harder today than when they were 30yrs ago? And the most frustrating part is they know it is, they just won’t admit it. Bc it would take admitting that they had it easier, and that their voting habits have led to their grandchildren being dramatically worse off than they were.
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@xariverty @DisavowedVet Even as a high income earner the ratio is in the 2:1-3:1 range but the ability to save cash to buy a home is so much more difficult. Sure homes were cheaper and people didn’t make as much but having to save $80k for a down payment on a starter home that fluctuates price is bad
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@DisavowedVet Back in the day the home price to income ratio was 2:1-3:1. Today it is more like 6:1. Saving money on lunch isn't gonna help this but you won't acknowledge this at all. Mass immigration has handed all the jobs to foreigners.
Save the holier than thou schtick.
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The person we bought our home from in 2022 bought the place in 2019 and rented it out for four years with zero improvements.
Between 2019 and 2022 the price went up ~70%. We still bought it.
Today, four years later, it is likely worth more.
Yes, we are living in the exact same economy as you. We bought the place we wanted at a price we could afford. We didn’t cry about the better homes or areas we couldn’t afford. We didn’t bitch and moan that someone else bought the exact same house in 2019 and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars less. We lived in the situation we were in and made do with the resources we had.
We cleaned up our credit together for four years prior to buying this home. We saved money as best we could in the exact same economy you’re living in.
“Oh but it shouldn’t be that much money!” So what. It is.
Buy or don’t. But don’t pretend you’re in some unique situation.
John Hagen@JohnHagendaus
@LibertyJen Consider the rise in home prices over the last several years, as well as wage stagnation in the same timeframe
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I am a Catholic IVF is not wrong.
I am a Catholic surrogacy is not wrong.
I am a Catholic I support contraceptives.
I am a Catholic I will do hallelujah Challenge during lent.
I am a Catholic I don't like some of the church teaching.
No, you are a modern day heretic.
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@PeterSmithJon @DavidfromMd2 @KyleBusch Some of the best wins have came from guys that are sick. If they banned racing while sick it would ruin some guys seasons
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@DavidfromMd2 @KyleBusch That’s a valid line of enquiry. There should be a line of enquiry, not to point the finger, but to stop it happening. Men are notorious in denying medical treatment with the “she’ll be right” attitude. More emphasis need to be put on health over winning. He need care not miles
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Was @KyleBusch physically fit to go in a race car at Watkins and Dover ? Was NASCAR aware of if he was or wasn’t under a Doctors care ?
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@RorikWanka As a Baptist this is the most ridiculous catholic thing ive ever heard.
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So here's my situation:
- We had a wedding 23 years ago in the Episcopal Church.
- I was Catholic, she was not
- Was assured at the time that the marriage would be "valid, yet irregular"
- She converted to Catholicism 12 years ago
- No one cared or found a problem at Catholic Churches we attended with our marriage which produced four children
- Move to a traditional Church
- Marriage found to be invalid
- Ordered to cease marital relations until marriage can be convalidated.
Am I allowed to kiss my long-term live-in girlfriend?
Novus Ordo Enjoyer 🐓🇵🇷@kingofthehood89
Oh brother what are we even doing here
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@MichaelFKane @JoelWBerry It might not be a lockout but it’s so infuriating as a gen z I understand why people give up. We bring home way more than my parents ever did and yet a home that is older than what they bought (25years later at that) is over 3x the cost
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You can tell that so many of the people dooming about modern economics have not seriously done the math. They're repeating what they've been told online.
And I get it. It's harder than it used to be. It's harder than when my wife and I bought our first home 10 years ago.
But the math isn't a universal lockout. That's just a lie.
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Saving $26 per day on lunch alone? That’s $780 per month. That absolutely could be the difference between affording a starter home or not.
LadyoftheLake@LadyoftheLakefr
a cheap aldi sandwich isnt gonna buy them a home
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@hiraethdao @JTAlexander Reread your post and the intent behind it. I think you’ll find I’m spot one.
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@JakeEvans2117 @JTAlexander You are literally dumber than dogshit and can’t read. I never said either of those things. Instead of vomiting internet meme garbage why don’t you pick up a book?
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“Gays shouldn’t be allowed to get married.”
Not a single barely literate Southern Baptist that foamed at the mouth while berating my generation as teenagers could explain *how* gay marriage would lead to them buying, trading, and raping kids and dogs, but by God they were right.
IMPERATOR@IMPERATORAUS
Sometimes we spend years studying a particular topic or idea only to discover that our initial – albeit simple – position was right all along. Give me your best example of where the low IQ take is actually the high IQ take.
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@hiraethdao @JTAlexander Peak double digit IQ is saying God isn’t real because I don’t like the people around me even though I choose to stay.
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@JTAlexander Let’s not give southern baptists or evangelicals any credit. They suck just as bad as the lgbtq just in a different way. I live in the south and can count on one hand the number of intelligent evangelicals I have met. They aren’t “noble savages” of trad values. Just dumb proles.
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@TheOnlyKrampus @matt17237342 @Kraig_w_a_K64 @jonbrooks That’s quite the joke. More shootings and fires than any other city in the state
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If housing prices had simply followed income growth since 1970, the average home today would be $138,000.
So… what actually broke?
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@tacowasa2nd @Herthaka_kun Actually he’s partly right. The left spend a lot on pointless things, but individual states are responsible for their own infrastructure. If needed, they can get help from the government. But the money is often pocketed and kept by those in control over the projects.
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なんでアメリカ人って、遠い外国での戦争には莫大な費用をかけるのに、自国の老朽化したインフラの更新に使う金はケチるの?
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@Harkmagic @vrilliumlive The problem is everything imaginable in Ukraine is jammed
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@vrilliumlive I don't imagine the US is going to have any problems going up against this kind of drone. Dismounted patrols will just start carrying jammers, and the government will pay more into disability for the increased number of service members getting cancer.
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Drones need to go the way of mustard gas. We need to sign a UN agreement banning their usage.
It’s a cowardly, disproportional, and lowly way of combat.
WarRoom Archives@WarRoomArchives
Drone warfare has reached such a level that many fighters have lost hope of escaping or resisting. For example, the final strike on the barracks is terrifying.
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@GenZMultifamily There are 1,200 sub-$100,000 homes in Missouri. Buy them, fix them up, and sell them. It's not hard to figure out how you move up. Homes are shelter. We'd all like a mansion, but too many think of their home as a trophy.
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"We need more affordable starter homes!"
Meanwhile, there's thousands of great homes just like this for sale.
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@GenZMultifamily In northwest Arkansas that gets you a home that needs a complete remodel 45min outside of town
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@JakeTSelby @SteveDeaceShow So do muslims in the Middle East kill western Christian’s just for being Christian’s or not?
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@SteveDeaceShow So you are saying that you are proud of the bigotry you hold based on your skewed and incomplete understanding of history. Got it.
Our society really needs to go back to publicly shunning people who publicly profess views like this.
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I confess to harboring extreme prejudice against repeating 1400 years of anguish, murder, and conquest in cultures dominated or invaded by Islam. And I’m not struggling at all with the pope’s message on Islam, I detest it pretty obviously. Not struggling at all, really.
Jake Selby@JakeTSelby
@SteveDeaceShow Steve, we get it. You harbor serious prejudice against Muslims and that is why you are struggling with this message from Pope Leo.
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@indexnforgetit The problem is I make way more than my parents ever did and it’s still a major struggle to buy a home smaller than what I grew up in
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Your grandparents bought a starter home
But they never upgraded and just called it “home”
This is the most spoiled entitled generation ever and it’s only getting worse
Nicki 🫧🪷@nickimoraa
Hot take: I shouldn’t have to buy a cheap duplex or “starter home” that doesn’t suit my needs to get into the housing market. I should just be able to buy a reasonably priced home with a good yard and a few bedrooms like my grandparents did and keep it forever.
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@evil_stomper13 @nickimoraa Eventually the market won’t grow like it has the past 20-40 years. It will be nearly impossible to build equity like you did
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@nickimoraa I bought a used mobile home for my first. After two years I sold it and bought a mill house in a depressed area. After living there, for a few years, I had enough equity to sell it and buy a decent home. Why not start small?
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Hot take:
I shouldn’t have to buy a cheap duplex or “starter home” that doesn’t suit my needs to get into the housing market. I should just be able to buy a reasonably priced home with a good yard and a few bedrooms like my grandparents did and keep it forever.
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@DeaceOnline It’s sad because we see the Catholic Church slowly going the way of the Methodists. Liberalizing a little at a time. But since it’s so widespread there is a small defense of “but not everyone is that way”. Get your own Catholics in line before coming after Protestants.
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To some of my Protestant friends who seem to be smelling Catholic blood in the water: Don’t. Your very understandable irritations with Leo/Francis aside, you can’t and won’t defeat Catholicism. You aren’t the people anyone has been waiting for. You will fail like everyone else.
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@higureshuuen That birthrate is what will make America a true Christian country again in 50 years.
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@starplatinumfr @Prosto_Hida It’s only “less precise” because you’re comparing it to a system that uses decimals primarily
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@Prosto_Hida Je n'aime pas trop l'uniformisation en général
Le système impérial est simple à comprendre : 1 pouce = 2,54 cm. 12 pouces = 1 pied. 1 pied = 30,48 cm
Ce système est moins précis mais les américains sont habitués avec, donc c'est qu'il s'est montré efficace jusque-là
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