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Thanks. I'll never own a home but at least if I get cancer I won't die. I'll just go bankrupt. At least there's no house for them to seize.

Bankruptcy is substantially better than death so yeah this seems like a win?

I don't think that's a universal truth.

I also don't think it's a tradeoff we necessarily need to make.

Regardless, I'd rather live happier for less time than longer in poverty.

Are you happy now?

Could have done that in the past though too.

What are you talking about, of course you can own a home. Sorry government's manage markets terribly???

How much you make a year?

Try owning a home on an average K12 teacher's salary.

This is all a function of supply in a market. Harvard and more have done studies. The govt making loans basically free crushed the market, the solution is more housing.

K12 teacher should easily afford housing. Especially with a spouse and summer job, for crying out loud!

"Have some imagination" or some perspective is exactly what I'd tell anyone telling me the same.

Finding a song was just different and a leisure commodity, people are still buying records. Directions were a similar task 50+ years ago as they were in the 90s, not that challenging to live day to day without Google Maps.

I think those are all pretty lazy, very fathomable examples.

"Remember buying music on discs! So hard". No. No it wasn't.

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