https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27586867
Capitalism is better than communism because iPhone!
You're not supposed to buy the iPhone though, that would m make you irresponsible and a bad person.
Walmart's wages are sufficient. You just lend the downpayment for a house from your family, and depend on your kids for survival in old age. Easy peasy!
Retirement means relying entirely on their (child?) for survival. Lmao
I find them insightful at times for tech topics but anything political they go turbo-neolib with maybe a couple progressives.
Have you browsed r/programming? It’s a ghost town except for like 2 or 3 posts filled with smooth brain comments. r/hardware is marginally better, but I also enjoy lobste.rs
My favorite part is that the wife is taking their earnings and giving them an allowance(?) so they don’t spend all their money on phones.
I think they just meant they lent the parents money for a 10% down payment on the house.