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We are going to need to see housing prices be allowed to drop majorly for a proper rebalance to occur. I think the Boomers can manage to not sell their house at quite the inflated rate that many of them are doing. They should have more to their nest egg than their house. And if not then that is their problem.

We should have already been restricting immigration, but that is "racist" according to our traitorous politicians. That would also alleviate housing demand.

Less crazy than this example is the median cost of houses going up from 143k in 1997 to 414k in 2025. This is still a major increase, since the price of a house tripled while incomes most certainly have not.

I have to wonder how many housing market issues are more of an isolated issue in major urban areas rather than universally true across the board, but I have seen housing prices higher in rural areas as well to a lesser extent, so it is effecting everyone to some extent.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/nearly-30-year-old-capital-gains-tax-exemption-rules-blamed-for-us-housing-shortage-5869376

I get trying to fix problems by removing bad taxes and red tape, but I don't think this will go far enough. The bigger problem is when older people who bought their home 30 years ago for 100k are trying to sell their house (supposedly) now worth 4 million without thinking about how it possibly makes sense to be selling at such a markup. Or am I to believe the house is really worth 40 times more than it was 30 years ago?

@anemone @YeetLibs >woke right

Cease this forced and homosexual terminology. I am not sad that the people who strike first with doxxing get doxxed themselves. You don't get to go to the battlefield and get outraged that you got shot when you are carrying a rifle yourself with the exact same intentions.

@EssentialUtinsil Yes, you should not have kids because you might have moments in your life that involve difficult situations. Nevermind that every aspect of life is going to have challenges and hardships, this specific scenario is just too hard for anyone to deal with!

Screw that noise. Not every day is going to be easy. But far more people have been sad that they did not have kids than those who were sad that they did.

@sardonicsmile I don't see how this needs to be a conflict. You can just buy both crunchy and smooth peanut butter, and each can have their own. It's not like peanut butter goes bad quickly or takes up that much space.

Though yes, the real problem is that he somehow does not have the stones to tell his wife that he is going to have crunchy peanut butter because he wants to have it. Or he is convincing himself out of it when she might not even care thar much.

One common example of this is women with their dating expectations. "He should make 500k a year, be at least 6 feet, good looking, and accept me as I as a single mom with 3 kids."

It is simply a sign of stupidity to not be able to have and accept a realistic assessment of what you should be able to attain, not live in delusion.

How many people have you come across that have unrealistic expectations? And how many of those people with unrealistic expectations have low intelligence?

It seems obvious when I mention it, but I think it is a missing piece in the discussion of those who have unrealistic expectations. They are stupid, plain and simple.

Among the many pieces of propaganda by the LGBT, the "we just want to get married" apparently never really took off even when the Supreme Court just invented the "right" for them to be married in spite of many states voting against it (even California of all states in 2008).

https://news.gallup.com/poll/329975/one-lgbt-americans-married-sex-spouse.aspx

@Fullmetal2255 I would give him the benefit of the doubt if not for the fact that he said "it made sense" to implement it in this way. And the fact that he seems to be aware of the performance issues but still defends it (assuming this is real and not a troll).

@Fullmetal2255 >I'm a React developer so it only made sense

In the field of software engineering, one important part of your job is to not only know if something can technically be done, but also IF it should be done.

@Tfmonkey The big problem with many libertarians is that they think they can implement their policies in any order and cheer even when they get open borders without realizing that having open borders means they will lose any possibility of cutting welfare. "Don't worry, we are working on that problem too!"

That is where the retardation is with many libertarians and the Libertarian party.

@Tfmonkey regarding the Libertarian party, you are correct that they are generally useless and often counterproductive. But with their own words, I have seen them claim to be cutting welfare spending and removing tax dollars from the healthcare system. But since they are only empty words, it is functionally the same thing as them being opposed to cutting that kind of spending.

@Justicar boo hoo life is not fair. Men are stronger than women, especially when it comes to upper body strength. I am not upset that a gorilla is way stronger than I am despite my years of training and the gorilla doing really no training at all.