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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those percentages seem off

[–] LesserAbe 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From the source we all trust and have heard of, The Zebra: https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/homeownership-statistics/

Updated the image. Apparently you can replace images on posts

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

Oh its US based. Still surprising how high that is.

[–] foggy 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When they say "own" they include foreign investors who own vacant apartment buildings playing real world monopoly and driving up our costs of living.

[–] LesserAbe 14 points 1 year ago

Also "own" here doesn't mean people have paid off their homes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_States

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

"Void of nothingness" is the best way I've ever heard of describing the time before I existed. I basically have to trust everyone older than me that things happened the way they happened.

[–] Num10ck 2 points 1 year ago

all of civilization is fundamentally based on trust.