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Re:People no longer believe working hard will lead to a bett... by Gibbon1 on Monday January 20, 2020 @12:24PM (#22100387)
Friend of mine made $100k/year from 2015 to 2020 by buying and selling a house. The US's obsession with passive income is insane and is going to utterly fuck us.
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Re:People no longer believe working hard will lead to a bett... by tempsy on Monday January 20, 2020 @12:32PM (#22100449)
Why is that a bad thing?
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Re:People no longer believe working hard will lead to a bett... by Ididntdothis on Monday January 20, 2020 @12:44PM (#22100562)
Because we can’t keep driving up asset prices and sell houses to each other. Doing something should be rewarded and not just having something.
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Re:People no longer believe working hard will lead to a bett... by selectstatement on Monday January 20, 2020 @01:29PM (#22100970)
Apparently we can.
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Re:People no longer believe working hard will lead to a bett... by tempsy on Monday January 20, 2020 @12:50PM (#22100607)
That isn’t how capitalism works
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Re:People no longer believe working hard will lead to a bett... by Gibbon1 on Monday January 20, 2020 @01:32PM (#22101009)
Why? Seriously why can't capitalism work like that?
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Re:People no longer believe working hard will lead to a bett... by tempsy on Monday January 20, 2020 @01:49PM (#22101151)
The capital in capitalism literally refers to using money to make money.
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Re:People no longer believe working hard will lead to a bett... by Gibbon1 on Monday January 20, 2020 @02:33PM (#22101466)
You can't make money while destroying things? I think you certainly can. Both in particular and in aggregate.
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