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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Your parents almost certainly voted to restrict the supply of housing so they could artificially inflate their houses value and retire off of their house.

The causes of the housing shortage are known. We can change it.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Son, one of these days, this will all be yours!

< gestures at crumbling 1985 tract home in car-dependent community >

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

1985

Check out the guy with the brand new house!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Luxury. Some day, you'll have 13 zoomers living in a shoebox in the middle of the road...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

This hurts almost as much as my teeth.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I had to get a root canal the other day. The dentist had to wait to see if my insurance would cover it because I had recently had a different root canal and "they sometimes don't pay for more than one."

[–] TheGoldenGod 27 points 1 year ago

They had to clamp down, since so many people were getting root canals for shits and giggles. /s

[–] Madison420 22 points 1 year ago

You ain't need but the one toof ya fancy sum bitch.

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[–] pete_the_cat 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I keep on having this debate with my dad. He's 73 and I'm 37. One night he was like "people from your generation want to buy a 'starter home' and a vacation home, and then a few years later buy a bigger home!" and I was like "no one in my generation is even thinking about buying a vacation home when they can barely make a livable wage in a lot of fields." Teachers make about $25/hour (about 35-40k/year) and they deal with tons of shit from the faculty, state, and students themselves. I was making $112k/year working in IT and could barely afford to live by myself in or close to Manhattan.

Edit: just for context, my rent was $2500/month for a 500 sq ft 1 bedroom apartment about 30-45 minutes from Manhattan. The sales tax rate in NYC is 10%. A burger and a beer can easily cost you $20.

[–] TheGoldenGod 30 points 1 year ago

The (boomer) generation holds bizarrely strong biases, it could be they subconsciously they do it to avoid admitting they’ve screwed their kids with their political votes, or more likely they simply only care about getting their own and aren’t thinking far enough ahead to realize their being snookered and driving the bus off a cliff.

[–] dunestorm 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

$112k/yr is a crazy amount of money; I also work in IT in a pretty high up position, I wish I even made half that...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends where you live too

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (8 children)

My grandparents ordered their house from Sears and grandpa and my great uncles built it over a summer weekend.

Damn thing still standing and is now I think on a historical register.

But today… we can do the same thing. You want a single or double wide?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooh until you check the prices of a manufactured home (trailer / caravan) and find out how unaffordable they are. Bonus you can't get a traditional mortgage for one.

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[–] wanderingmagus 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Solution: enlist in the military! /s

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Then you can be poor with ✨HEALTHCARE✨

[–] TheGoldenGod 14 points 1 year ago

Don’t forget PTSD and other depressive disorders.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least until you get out.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Kids these days are all gum, no gumption"

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[–] slaacaa 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheGoldenGod 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s what they’ll be called in insurance plans.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Basically happens now.

Implants--which actually function exactly like real teeth--are considered optional, cosmetic luxuries. They're almost never covered by dental plans and cost thousands of dollars. Per tooth.

Dentures--which suck and are mainly cosmetic and don't allow you to eat the same foods you always had when you had real teeth--are considered necessary and practical. You can get free dentures from government/welfare insurance. But even out of pocket are are only a couple hundred.

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[–] TheGoldenGod 19 points 1 year ago

Feels like we’re already nearing Mad Max with a dash of Blade Runner for an appetizer.

[–] doppelgangmember 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So untrue, just put it downpayment on a 30 yr fixed loan for some dentures.

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[–] Vupperware 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] Wayren 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want to laugh but man this hits close to home.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So nice of insurance companies to decide that our teeth, eyes, and minds aren't part of our bodies.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know. I wish we lived in a communist dystopia.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (28 children)

I lived in USSR. No you do not.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Or just a classic socialist democracy would do fine. Doesn't even need to be dystopian just you know like what they have in Norway and shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean it could be worse. In an alternate timeline, you could be living in world where the nazis built nukes first and America becomes a fascist puppet state.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Ah yes, I love living in the world where the only thing that could be worse than reality is literal fascist dystopia

😅

🥲

😟

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Wait until 2024...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It could be even worse than that, Martians could have invaded, turning us all into slave labor and food stock.

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[–] Naja_Kaouthia 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don’t forget trying to figure out how much you can eat daily! A second meal is a treat!

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