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https://twitter.com/gritty20202/status/1571914348502605829?s=46&t=WGOkG7qQI1-MMz-V7U5upA

The funny part is the average house in my area is $750,000

yeah in what fucking universe is the average house 345k.

i guess when you factor in all the trailer parks across the midwest, sure, it brings the "Average" down. Really should be sectioned off by type of area (urban, rural, etc), and be a $/sqft or $/acre land metric.

Shouldve went to sleep sooner

I would do anything to buy a house for $345k where I live

We gentrified the already gentrified Dream.

Smashingpmkns posted...

I would do anything to buy a house for $345k where I live

Anything?

Naysaspace posted...

yeah in what fucking universe is the average house 345k.

i guess when you factor in all the trailer parks across the midwest, sure, it brings the "Average" down. Really should be sectioned off by type of area (urban, rural, etc), and be a $/sqft or $/acre land metric.

This. There are tons of cheap houses in the middle of the country but Im not sure what you do once you get there.

We went to bed with the American dream, we woke up in Night-merica

ToadallyAwesome posted...

This. There are tons of cheap houses in the middle of the country but Im not sure what you do once you get there.

Depends on what you're doing now. Most citys have walking, hiking and bike trails, golf courses, Fishing spots, skiing, river rides or etc. And if you're a introvert, why would it even matter?

Just because a city isn't on the coastline doeasnt mean it has nothing to offer depending on the person.

Shacking up in a storm drain for free baby

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He died in 2015.

American Dream in 2022: Afford ketchup

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That makes you a deviant, according to the strictest definition of the word.

Pretty soon inflation is gonna hit so high, it'll be cheaper to use your dollar bills as literal wallpapers for your house

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Those who operate outside of the social structure in economic matters exhibit deviant behavior.

Ketchup hoarding is essentially the same as drug dealing or establishing a commune in terms of rejection of social norms.

Ajiri posted...

https://twitter.com/gritty20202/status/1571914348502605829?s=46&t=WGOkG7qQI1-MMz-V7U5upA

The funny part is the average house in my area is $750,000

median price of $1.4M smdh

Alteres posted...

Anything?

Literally

I'd rather give up and just be a dishwasher and then cross the bridge of my mom moving on whenever it happens

345k is 10x 32,000

25,000 is 61x 401

George Carlin was right when he said this

The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It's called the American Dreambecause you have to be asleep to believe it.

Gritty for President

WingsOfGood posted...

345k is 10x 32,000

25,000 is 61x 401

fyi what this means is either:

1. houses in 1968 were 61 times cheaper than today
2. or having a baby costs 61 times more today than then

er actually 51x diff but you get it

Place to live

As little work as possible

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/2/6/AAEhCpAADs3y.jpg

Minimum wage was $1.60/hr in 1968.

That's over 13 dollars an hour in 2022. WTF happened?

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

WTF happened?

The rest of the world stopped being actively on fire (and sometimes radioactive) from WW2.

those numbers are bullshit and the entire narrative around them is based on ulterior motives

stop being lazy and go work and learn something hard so you can earn more money over time

Questionmarktarius posted...

The rest of the world stopped being actively on fire (and sometimes radioactive) from WW2.

And that means slash their potential lifetime earnings by at least a half?

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

And that means slash their potential lifetime earnings by at least a half?

Yes.
If someone in Bangladesh is willing to do the work for fifty cents a day, you'd be dumb to pay an American $13 an hour to do it.

That's why the only jobs left are the ones that can't be outsourced easily.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Yes.
If someone in Bangladesh is willing to do the work for fifty cents a day, you'd be dumb to pay an American $13 an hour to do it.

That's why the only jobs left are the ones that can't be outsourced easily.

the pandemic showed the importance and wisdom of resilient and localized supply chains wherever possible, that is why fabs are being built in europe and the united states. the labor will cost more, but the long-term results will be more stability in product availability and consequently lower expenses for the producers since they won't struggle with supply issues ever again (at least not for the same reasons as before)

they'll pay American labor more because American labor is better and localized supply chains where possible are more resilient. nobody ever wants to see chip shortages again, and it's not just chips that are important.

Those numbers should be adjusted for inflation. I mean it still sucks, but still

Adjusted for inflation:
Tuition: $10,212
Hospital cost: $3,464
House: $210,197

a house financed over 15 to 30 years at that inflation-adjusted median is a very good deal and could be paid off much faster than that time frame if wise and disciplined with the median household income

emblem-man posted...

Those numbers should be adjusted for inflation. I mean it still sucks, but still

Adjusted for inflation:
Tuition: $10,212
Hospital cost: $3,464
House: $210,197

Those are the '68 numbers? Lol

sugarysyntax posted...

the pandemic showed the importance and wisdom of resilient and localized supply chains wherever possible, that is why fabs are being built in europe and the united states. the labor will cost more, but the long-term results will be more stability in product availability and consequently lower expenses for the producers since they won't struggle with supply issues ever again (at least not for the same reasons as before)

That's up to the bean-counters.
If labor + logistics works out by moving things back here, then great.

As-is, it looks like China is going to move into its own "US in the 1970s" era, as everything relocates to India and Vietnam: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/21/apple-to-move-25-iphone-production-to-india-by-2025-20-ipad-and-apple-watch-to-vietnam/

time for me to invest in India and Vietnam and wherever fabs are being built