Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers

Re:Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers by erikpukinskis on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:28AM (#20764918)

Also, consider the possibility that a company like Facebook moves its primary office to VR in ~10 years.

Not putting a probability on that, but we’ve never seen a teleconferencing platform with eye contact and body language before. I have no idea if that’s the limiting factor, but it seems at least plausible. FB, Google, and Apple will almost certainly all be selling $500 devices that can do those two things inside of 5 years.

Is that enough to disrupt physical offices? I don’t know.

But the probability is not 0. Personally I doubt ‘p(by 2030 one tech giant allows most workers to choose to work in VR)’ is < 0.1.

I’m going to price that into any Bay Area property valuation I make. How many people are only here because their office demands it?

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Re:Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers by helen___keller on Thursday August 22, 2019 @09:29AM (#20767785)

Seems a bit like wishful thinking. Atleast coming from someone who can't stand VR, gives me a headache

Personally I think it's more likely that some lawmakers eager to disrupt the status quo find a reason to break up big tech, and a bunch of the baby facebooks, baby googles, etc, relocate to cheaper cities when executives decide margins need to improve. Not sure if I see this happening by 2030 though, maybe by 2050.

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