Re:What is the point of imagining new technologies without n...
by erosenbe0 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:06PM
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Why are you so fixated on owning property? Plenty of families don't own property due to moving for better jobs every few years or military. Do you have a marketable skill or licensure, some savings, and the ability to take care of your health? Great. You will be an awesome parent. Get to work
Re:What is the point of imagining new technologies without n...
by paganel on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:44PM
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> Why are you so fixated on owning property? P
Because the prices will only go up, judging by what happens further West (I live in Eastern Europe). Five, six years ago I used to believe that wouldn't have hold true going forward, reality contradicted me.
I do not want to "chase better" jobs into my 50s or, God-forbid, into my 60s, I'm content with what I have on that front. No, we do not have (more than emergency) savings, no, we do not have a strong family-support network, no, I don't believe we're the only ones in our age cohort that are in that situation.
Re:What is the point of imagining new technologies without n...
by erosenbe0 on Monday January 10, 2022 @12:18PM
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I understand now. Definitely property values haven risen proportionately faster than wages in most of the big cities of the USA. This causes wealth distribution by age to be suboptimal. 40 y/o have too little wealth compared to 70 y/o.
It highly depends. I'm in my early 40s now, still not owning a property, me and my SO are finally one step away from getting into (quite considerable, for our standards) debt so that we can take that out of the way. 30-40 years ago property was a lot more easier to get hold of, even for the less financially fortunate. Forgot to mention that we do not have kids, partially because of the stress of not owning a property just yet.