you can already rent tuxes and wedding dresses, for years now tho??
Used to be, you about had to rent. Now it’s cheaper to own both items.
Just got married last month. Bought my wife’s dress for ~$160 and my (second!) tux set for $110. And we looked fly as fuck.
Buying clothes ain’t the thing. Capitalism worked great on some fronts! Buying a home is the thing. And capitalism failed hard on others.
Young people got straight fucked on that, and you should be rioting in the streets.
You look like an Irish mob boss who runs a 24/7 soup kitchen and sends his enforcers to guard union strikes. I mean this in the best way.
Damn you guys look fly as fuck…
😍 congratulations! yeah, you look great.
you should be rioting in the streets.
The Texas Cox decision pretty much seals we’re too fffn asleep to be in the streets about anything now.
Hanes brand has entered the chat.
Or…perhaps…instead of 100-year mortgages we learn from the French and start separating heads and wealth from the 1% that are trying to own everything so they can rent it to us.
Learn from the French
Seperating heads
In Montreal,
Québec, 0.045% of the population own over 30% of residential properties.Edit: actually that’s 0.46% of property owners own 32% of rental properties in Montréal.
Source (French)
And it keeps getting worse: crazy inflating property prices and matching rent hikes.
A French comedian did a local show. He made a joke that he was going around town looking at the shops. He saw a real estate office and was dumbfounded by the prices. He exclaimed how half a million for an apartment was insane. People laughed and someone mentioned he was way off, it’s worse than that. Half a million maybe gets you a small one-bedroom studio in a city, not an apartment.
Worth noting that homeownership has never been part of the Swiss Dream like it’s part of the American Dream. Still, the average Swiss person is significantly better of financially than the average American.
Same is true to some degree in Germany.
Ben La!!
Source?
Ah my bad I misread it last time.
“0.46% of the landlords own 32% of rental properties.”
Source (French)
Leave major cities.
You will never own property in one.
I wish I could but that’s where my girlfriend’s job is. And she can’t find that same kind of job anywhere else. Her field is very specific.
But even smaller cities have become unaffordable now.
my wife’s a university lecturer. Do we have to move the buildings or do we just hold classes in the open fields?
You simply commute to work. That’s what people in rural areas who work in cities have done since forever.
If you can’t afford to live in the city, then you don’t live in the city. That’s how you make ends meet and stay financially solvent.
many already commute to work. All this does is make us drive farther. What’s in it for me? Cheaper house prices - well we had cheaper house prices but they went away, so now I have to commute more. And when I move, prices go up. so I commute more. And then prices go up again. and so i move. And when I move, prices go up. so I commute more. and so i move.
You really look at the world we’re in now and think “you know what this world needs? More vehicle exhaust emissions, tire wear, and longer working hours - but hey, at least Blackstone got to create a monopoly on empty houses!”
Why do I have to take the soggy end of a short straw? Why do I have to burn fossil fuels and my free time otherwise I’m SOL? Why can’t it be the billion dollar companies who sacrifice a fraction of a percent instead of me sacrificing double-digit percents of my time and money?
Nowhere did I say that any of that “is what the world needs”
I just explained the current reality and a solution for people who might want an answer to their current problems. There’s nothing you or I can do about the prices of real estate and rent in the big cities. You can wish it was cheaper to live in the city all day but it’s not going to accomplish anything, and Congress and the President are not going to fix it for you either, probably at least in the span of a few decades from now.
So if you want to be able to afford a place to live NOW the answer is what I said.
To recap:
- “housing prices are too expensive”
- “Just move out of the city bro!”
- “But we have job that’s physically located in a city”
- “Just commute”
- “That doesn’t solve the problem, it just replaces it with a different problem that is in some ways worse”
then
- “that’s just reality, I’m trying to solve the problem here”
- “you can’t solve this problem”
- “I have the solution to this problem”
- “there is no solution to this problem and no one can solve it”
???
That’s just a pile of shit that you made. Stop trying to make up bullshit that I did not say, when what I said is STILL FUCKING THERE FOR YOU TO READ.
In the fields. Charlemagne it up in there!
Are you saying it’s impossible to live outside of major cities? Or are you trying to argue that life outside of one isn’t good enough for you?
Do you think you deserve more before others who have less? Ex: You can’t afford living in a major city, but you think someone else should help you out before everyone living outside of major cities?
You can’t afford living in a major city, but you think someone else should help you out before everyone living outside of major cities?
Not this person but, the government should encourage urban residency. You might ask why and the answers are many, many fold. City residents have significantly less of a carbon footprint is for one reason (and it’s a major one).
Right now we’re subsidizing our suburbs in the US, and it’s an environmentally destructive, regressive thing to do.
1 - no
2 - life without a job (by synecdoche I actually mean “money”, by which I actually mean with all the caveats of "in the system in which we live and its attendant axioms) is no good for anyone, not just me
3 - no
4 - your assumption is incorrect (that i think that) and your example is not relevant here (not analogous to what i said) so no I don’t think that.
1 - thanks for being honest
2 - Can’t you get a job outside of a major city?
3 - thanks for being honest
4 - I think my example is very relevant. Either we put measures in place to limit the cost of property, or we spread out and reduce demand.
Our governments are built on making rich people richer as quickly as possible. There’s no way we are going to implement safeguards to prevent that unless there is a massive cultural shift.
2 - I challenge you to find 2 fine arts dept curriculum head or better vacancy posts at universities not based in major cities
4 - good idea. I pick the first one.
edit: re the other two honesty doesn’t enter into it. your questions were non sequiturs.
2 - That’s not my point. My point is that you can find a job and even own property from its salary outside of major cities easier than inside of them.
4 - Cool, so the government should step in to funnel money to you before those who have less than you? Why should you get more before people living in places you deem unworthy of you?
I’ll just answer #4 for you: Entitlement. You think you’re entitled to more while others have less. Other people should step in for you to subvert supply and demand. Where demand is low and supply is high is not good enough for you, even though millions of people live there.
Cities are where the jobs, the events and the people are. Most people don’t want to live in suburban hell or middle of nowhere.
Most people don’t want to live in suburban hell or middle of nowhere.
Well, then they have to pay up.
Supply and demand and all that.
Especially when all the supply has been bought by corporations intending to rent all homes.
Yeah. And what’s funny is, every single person renting gives those corporations more power to do the same thing elsewhere.
This generation failed to appreciate the value of ownership, and they’re getting fucked for it left and right.
At least they’re not alone, which is what most of them tell themselves.
This generation failed to appreciate the value of ownership,
This is the dumbest take of the day. And it isn’t even 9am.
Stagnant/low wages, price hikes, wealth being funnelled up the chain, and more and more red tape attached to every transaction are the problem. Not people who don’t want to own. Get your head out of your ass.
Hey genius, what do you think causes wealth to funnel up the chain?
All of the evils we bemoan in modern society start with consumers paying for those evils.
“But I have no choice!”
Choose helplessness, beg our bought and paid for governments to bail you out. How’s that working?
Remember how the price of gas collapsed during COIVD? Yeah, because people quit buying.
It’s hard to learn self-reliance and related skills. But don’t come crying to me saying, “We’ve never taken ownership of our issues and why won’t the government fix it?!”
beg our bought and paid for governments to bail you out.
And
Remember how the price of gas collapsed during COIVD? Yeah, because people quit buying.
They could quit buying because of government assistance pressuring businesses to close. And then providing assistance to those forced to stay home.
Most people don’t exactly have a choice. They kinda need places to live near their jobs which almost always dictate where they live.
Also, appreciate the value of ownership? How do you expect almost anyone in Gen Z to afford to own anything more substantial than a car? The oldest of us are just starting our professions after getting out of college/trade school, and getting into jobs that don’t pay enough to afford a house anytime soon. We never even had the option of ownership because housing is fucked.
Hell I’m one of the lucky ones. I graduated college without debt and I make really good money, but it’s gonna take me 5 years to save up a down payment for a $8k a month mortgage despite living well below my means. I can only imagine how fucked it is for the average person who will never have the chance to own anything at all.
We never had the choice to own anything.
I already did, would never want to live in one either. People living in rectangular hives on top of each other, hearing every annoying noise and bump that the others make at any hour of the day or night… Nah.
This is short sighted, however. It may be true in the moment, but in time, the corporate world will gobble up as much as they can and rent it forever, without regulation.
“Financial Influencer Grant Cardone Says He Can Make You A Billionaire. His Investors Claim He Defrauded Them.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/grant-cardone-financial-influencer_n_64ada368e4b0e87d65574e9b
This fucker is trying to establish his evil plan to make billions as an expected standard.
I listened to his audiobook before I knew who he was. I just kept thinking to myself “this guy seems like an out of touch fuckwit.” I couldn’t help but disagree with so much of what he said to the point that I lost any desire to acquire any wealth. I figured I’d rather die poor in a ditch than become anything like this human leech. I’m still a bit dirty that I gave him a couple of dollars for his book but at least I know what I don’t want to be so that’s something I guess
I mean… we are kitty corner from straight up feudalism.
Edit: Protip: Feudalism is Anarchy where the top dogs are really abusive about asserting their dominance.
Anyone wanna rent my pants? It only has one yellow stain.
If this happens…anyone want to be a ter—uh rebel?? silently lights up cocktail
AAS (as a service) is coming in all forms. We’re almost there, in reality. Cars, houses, etc etc.
Do you want drastically increased theft? Because that’s how you get drastically increased theft
FTA:
“you might even rent your clothes in the future.”
The future?
https://www.mysubscriptionaddiction.com/best-clothing-subscription-boxes
I don’t think any of those make you return the clothes after a set period of time, do they? Because clothes are not especially desirable used for the same price as new.
They do have options to buy though.
I wonder how they get away with that? Who wants a used dress that isn’t even the latest fashion of the month? Do they just sell them off?
I want out of this timeline now, K? Thanks
says we might even rent out clothes
With today’s fast fashion churning out clothes with shorter and shorter lifespans combined with our cultural love of replacement over repair, we basically already do.
It’s already begun… https://www.nuuly.com
I always find it amazing that people actually give a fuck about fashion and don’t just wear what they like. I don’t get it, fashion is supposed to be a statement about yourself, not about the company that made your clothes. Wear a T-shirt and jeans, wear cargo pants, wear whatever you want because you’re supposed to be making a statement about who you are, not who a company wants you to be.
Advertising is a hell of a drug.
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And peer pressure.
I grew up in OC, So Cal, and bailed out to a rural mountain area some years ago. I wear jeans, tshirts, hoodies/jackets and either work boots or flip flops on an average day (I’ll still dress up for weddings and other events that call for it). Every time I go back down there to visit, My brother and best friend feel the need to try to dress me like a damn ken doll before we can go anywhere, to no avail and it turns into an idiotic argument every time. I’ve repeatedly explained that I wear what’s confortable, and I don’t give two shits what some uppity muppets think of me based on how i’m dressed. I’m already married, have a great job, and make good money, so I’m not out to impress anyone.
For the record, all of my clothes are always clean and in good repair, I just dress extremely casual and confortable. I think these guys are just so would up in the rat race that they have trouble imagining life otherwise.
Fashion is wearing what you like, unless you’re talking about trends.
I mean, any who engages in ‘fast fashion’ deserves to get taken advantage of to the fullest extent possible.
What a bunch of trite just to feel superior to others who are poorer than you.
Some people eat too much because they are sad inside.
Some people get into drugs because their lives are unfulfilling.
Fast fashion is just another kind of hole being filled by another kind of ‘capitalism makes you miserable, but also you can feel a little better momentarily for $16.99!’
Agreed.
The number of people who define themselves by either their job or their consumption habits… amd usually almost nothing else … is still something I can barely wrap my head around some times.
Johnny Silverhand did nothing wrong, death to corpo trash.
Is that why it’s tearing itself apart? /s
Neofeudalism is the goal of capitalism, always has been.
You will own nothing and be happy.
imo its more like: You will own nothing and be miserable
I feel like the purported capitalism that’s run rampant for centuries is just an extension and rebranding of the OG feudalism. Always thought that.
I used the term “thinly veiled feudalism” in a college paper or three.
I had a history teacher in the late 90s that lapped up every paper I wrote bc within the boundaries of the assignment, I’d be writing about Che instead of Teddy Roosevelt.
Basically. The original bourgeois fighting against the feudal lords basically changed just enough so that they themselves could become lords, or lord like, with no so much care for anyone below thier own class.
There are significant differences, but yes, in a way. Class conflict has always been at the core of modern human history, and when the bourgeoisie and Proletariat teamed up against the Aristocracy, Capital was transfered from the hands of the microscopically few to the hands of much more. However, this is an incomplete transfer of power, and as Capital consolidates, it trends back to a form of Feudalism.
Yeah, well put. I’m just identifying the underlying class conflict of resource scarcity and power hunger, through all of human history under the guise of any and every governmental system
Very concisely written dude… really nails the way the shifting about happened
You are not alone in believing this.
Very true, been touting this for years. The rich tricked the peasantry into helping them take over the aristocracy. Now we have less legal protections than a medieval serf.
they United States Federal government holds the note on my house. I’m paying 1% interest. for 33 years.
it’s a pretty sweet deal.
I got a Habitat for Humanity house and mortgage. 0% interest, 0 property taxes. Cost of the home was the cost of purchasing the land and building it.
Keep playing sucker games kids, keep getting suckered, keep bitching.
Or maybe try something?
And how would one accomplish that?
USDA direct loan. the rates went up this year but they still give a deferment for financial hardship. I think it’s called a 502 or 503 direct loan.
Service guarantees citizenship.
Would you like to hear more?
Wish I would have. At 52, I’d have been retired for 20 years, pulling retirement since then, and fat on benefits. PLUS, working as a government consultant of some sort if I was skilled and chose to do so.
And somehow, people think if you join, you have to pick up an M4 and go fight in a desert. Yeah, those jobs are for people who want them, or are too stupid to do anything else.
You’re still part of the machine, and fuck that. Fuck that military industrial complex.
I’m doing my part!
I know a guy who took that deal in mid 2000.
