No that is not where we are headed. We are headed somewhere ELSE. Because there are no hysterical women who read this board who would lose their shit and try cancel everyone (instead of arguing, because hysterical women can't argue) after reading this, I will be blunt and honest.Tree wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2024 11:44 amBy that theory we’re going to have to build a whole lot more shitty homes so the middle class can own rather than rent the current ones that big money is buying up. Do you really think that’s where we’re headed?innocentbystander wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 11:03 pmDamn Straight!
That is EXACTLY what needs to happen. That is EXACTLY the conversation that needs to be had when talking about this "crisis." But prior to you reading that here at The Goat Pen, I'll bet you never thought to think about it that way.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, everyone got married and we had a Patriarchal society. Father knew best. And if father said to his wife, we are buying this small, shitty, house over there (even though you hate it, wife) because I can afford to make the payments, it gives me a yard that I want and need as a man (that way nobody can hear us through the common apartment wall when we are fucking), and you don't have to work. Its small but its enough. You can clean the whole house in 20 minutes. You know what happened? SHE OBEYED! She got onboard with the marriage and plan. She didn't get everything she wanted. It wasn't happily ever after. She obeyed and she submitted to the authority of her husband. Father knew best. Houses were small. That is all that was selling. There were no McMansions on 3-quarter acre lots in 1960.
Try and imagine (for just one second) that type of interaction happening TODAY with a young married couple? Just try and imagine it? Just think about the kind of fight that would ensue? Likely, the wife is calling DookSucks and he will make her "whole" ($$$$$) at her former husband's expense because she is not haaaaaappppppy anymore.
Today? With so few people getting married (is anyone getting married anymore???) The housing market in 2024 has adjusted to the reality of demographics and the absence of the Patriarchy. And what is that adjustment? Condos and apartments are being built like gang busters. Young people can't afford a regular house, you are correct. They can afford a small, shitty, 1960 house, on a tiny lot that is grandfathered in on such a small subdivision, but they don't want that. No granite countertop in that house. No updated bathroom either. The wall paper is all stained and curling and ugly. And where is the basement? Fuck that shit. They will just keep paying super high rent in those absolutely gorgeous brand new apartments and newly renovated condos and apartments with all new appliances. That way, they have all the creature comforts they are used to. They just never actually OWN anything and they grow up feeling like they have less in life than they are entitled. And the bachelors? They are largely out. They live at home, in the parent's basement, smoking weed, playing video games, and masturbating to porn. Afterall, its free, and women have largely told them that they are worthless and should just commit suicide.
These are very easy lifestyle/living decisions to make since so many of the people who are making these decisions are just women moving out and living on their own patiently waiting for the husband to come along and pay off their student loans and give them a house OR a young married couple where the wife gives the orders as to where they will live and husband obeys. Of COURSE they are not buying anything small and shitty. That is a non-starter if SHE is making all the decisions. So the choice is obvious: just keep paying high rent and living well and accumulating no wealth. Oh, and vote for the democrats to enact policy so they can welsh on their student loans.
That is 2024. That is where we are headed.
