OT Unregulated capitalism killing the American Dream

No, it doesn't show a thing. California has twice the population of some of our largest states such as New York and Florida and 1/3 more than Texas. You've got to go on a per capita basis such as all such data is based. Some? No, all.

 

No. 1, they have to be forced to do that work and not work within the prison;
No. 2, don't they have to be paid for doing this work?

 

Is Capitalism Actually Efficient?



Edit: Amazon destroys millions of brand new unused products. This is freaking insane.

 

I think today’s culture wants a fair shot.

 

oh god. Cool story of an isolated example.

 

Ive been busting my ass since I was 15 years old, I haven’t been unemployed for more than a month since that age. And worked side jobs for people to make cash if and when I was unemployed. Admittedly, I wasn’t the best with my money through my teens and twenties and didn’t save as much as I should. Mostly young parents trying to get by and not a lot left over to save. I’ve just recently been in a position to finally buy a home, but this pandemic fueled market manipulation and wealth transfer has severely fucked that up. All the money I’ve saved is sitting in my bank account losing value with inflation while home prices continue to rise and more people are being given stimulus cash while every business under the sun has a help wanted sign in the window. I’m about to just drop everything on a chunk of land that’ll at least hold some asset value. I feel like I’m working for Monopoly money. I really feel like a second class of citizens is being created. Rent paying workers with no chance of ever creating their own wealth. And it’s by design with the governments blessing. I realize times were tough in certain ways ‘back in the day’ but at least you could own a home with a regular job.

 

You won't regret buying land dude...it's always been monopoly money but real estate has been fueled by get rich quick real estate agents and massive forest fires destroying hundreds of thousands of homes on the west coast....not the pandemic. You could once buy a brand new car for 750 bucks when my dad was a kid...now it's 35K.....I was going to say if you buy land...put in a power line, well and a septic and wait to build a house until the prices of lumber go down or do what Elon Musk did...he sold his Beverly Hills mansion and moved a 50k modular kit home to live in...it's pretty slick little unit...when you have land you can add on later...make sure you have water and are not buying in a flood plain...you will love having your own land..some states have class K housing codes so you can put up a cabin on post and pier foundation...I'm not building anything now until lumber prices and hardware prices drop down...I can't even order custom sized doors and windows now as they haven't produced new ones for 18 months and are back ordered like crazy..told myself next year I'll try that again

 

This is a direct result of the fiat money the FED is printing.

As bad as it's been, it's going to get much worse for a while.

 

I had a paper route at 12. I remember Sunday mornings waking up and it would take 5 sometimes 6 trips on my BMX bike to deliver.

There’s lazy people in every generation. They used to just get labeled as hippies and free spirits.

 

Ha! No

 

bingo. But our generation should just fit this group as a whole. Bullshit

 

Gas, Food, Car Prices Skyrocketing Revealing Downsides Of Globalization.