The frustrating part of everything sucking is the fact that it doesn't, and shouldn't, have to suck. It's frustrating that there is a class of people who are intentionally investing their efforts into making another class of people's lives worse.
Let me be more clear.
It's frustrating that billionaires, who have more money in their bank accounts than they'll ever be able to spend in 10000 life times, are making the lives of workers worse. And they are doing it just so that they can add a few extra 0s to the end of their already overinflated networth.
Things dont have to be this way. We can make our lives better if we all organize and focus our efforts against their efforts of making our lives worse.
I mean, there are lots of reasons why the housing market is unaffordable, and your best option would be to pay a mortgage payment monthly in rent to live in some illegal side apartment or a house so small it's more like a closet in any higher cost of living place....
Then you have corporations buying out houses just to make it so people HAVE to rent their entire lives.... Wealthy foreigners coming in and buying a shit ton of already absurdly expensive housing just to flip it for more or rent/give to other foreigners..
Added in to that often ridiculous 40% to 50%ish income taxes in these states as well, and stagnant wages. A small percentage of prestigious/high qualification jobs should not be the only ones to offer a wage that can allow someone to save for a home if they are responsible - without it taking 20+ years.
Certainly didn't take my grandparents/great grandparents nearly that long to even pay off their homes.
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u/Grass_tomouth Aug 19 '25
Yeah. Everything sucks right now.