Almost feels like my brain is broken or some shit.

I’m looking at the pricing of houses in my area and comparing it to my salary, and how the actual fuck is anyone affording a house these days? We’re talking almost half a million for a house that takes <2 days to build and is practically an irl copy and paste of some of the homes down the street. What the actual fuck. It seems like I’m the only one (though I know I’m not) who sees how this is completely at odds with everything I learned about the world.

Also, so salaries. How the fuck are they determined? Because it certainly isn’t the result of how much actual work you do, I’m making nearly six figures and I do jack shit yet I’m supposed to just be OK with how morally repugnant that is, as if I’m not also a piece upholding the same utterly corrupt system as well?

Fuck if I know, I try to say this shit to people irl and they just tell me that the world’s not fair blah blah blah. Yeah homie, “not fair” is quite possibly the biggest understatement ever.

I very much understand what people say when they say that money is not real. Feel free to grill my complete ignorance of Econ too if you wish, maybe it’s just something I’ll never understand

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    5 months ago

    my shitty ancient doublewide on like 0.3 acre surrounded by industrial zoning is worth over 150k and i paid about what a used truck goes for now 5 years ago

    i have done no renovation work and only let it degrade further.

    makes no sense

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        5 months ago

        supposedly if they were built after 1990 they tend to appreciate since comprehensive federal regulations dropped that led to better built manufactured homes.

        mine is like 1994. the interior is totally stock and shit but the previous owner did put a new roof on, new HVAC, and other essential work.

        but yeah sometimes you get lucky. no joke found this thing in a classified ad being offloaded by a rent to own company. but you are right unless you are willing to risk getting scammed there's no way to get a house for under 60k like that. legit thought we were going to get murdered when we went to see the address lol