• Tja@programming.dev
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    13 hours ago

    If that’s their whole retirement investment (as they said it’s their only income, no idea about us retirement details) if they don’t increase your rent, their net income will GO DOWN. Prices of everything also went up for them, if you think it’s hard with constant income, imagine with declining income.

    The value of their house going up is useless to pay for bread.

    You should get a bigger paycheck, average wage growth is around 5% in the US, higher than inflation even.

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      12 hours ago

      Sounds like they should get an actual job, rather than expecting someone else to pay for their retirement; someone who probably won’t get to retire themselves

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        12 hours ago

        If it’s their only income source I assume they are retired. If they aren’t, you are absolutely right.

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          7 hours ago

          Why do we have to sacrifice our future ability to retire and own a house because they bought all the houses and retired first?

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            6 hours ago

            How are the two related? It’s not a zero sum game, there’s new houses being built all the time.

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              There are studies recently released that show that the people who are buying houses 20 years ago are the same people buying houses today. It is a zero-sum game because nobody else is able to buy a house, especially not if they’re younger.

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        12 hours ago

        They probably had a job for many decades, it’s how they bought and paid the house.

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          7 hours ago

          And now they are taking away the next generations ability to buy and pay for a house by making them fund their retirement.

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            51 minutes ago

            People Mike that are not tge reason housepricees increase so mich that is 99% big speculators owning thousands oft units and hiking prices and rents.

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            6 hours ago

            How are they taking it away? There have always been people who rent and people who buy. Someone renting doesn’t prevent you from buying.