baremetal

>Since covid, rents increases have far outpaced salary increases. And since 2022 so have bill, groceries, everything.

Same story in the US.

Even ditch digging is satisfying after the fact.

Pay is worse, and it is harder on your body.

But I can tell you have never done a manual job because you would understand the sense of satisfaction at the end of the day when you gaze upon the fruits of your labors.

Everyday I drive past houses I built and people now live in. Very rewarding.

I was in tech for more than a decade. I would go back _if_ I could find a well run company with a good team rather than the corporate bureaucracy that sucks the fun out of coding.

I am currently building out my farm.

I am also a general contractor.

And the end of the day you feel a profound sense of accomplishment when you gaze upon your the fruits of your labors. Everyday I drive past houses and businesses that I framed and now people live and work in them.

Pretty soon I will be petting my cows and swimming in my pond. Also there is nothing like a spring morning outside, sun on your face, birds chirping. Good for mental health.

Divide and conquer.

Break the problem up into pieces and solve the pieces.

Getting my farm up and running.

Getting my freelancing software business making money.

Enjoying life.

_Maybe_ try to find a wife.

Inflation has run at ~2-3% since the 1990's.[1] And according to that chart, inflation took off in 2020. You might want to check your reasoning on this issue.

[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA

There is a certain segment of the population that has no respect for laws and will punch you in the face for next to no reason. If you look at them the wrong way they will become violent.

Good luck with the law thing though.

I played the original Age of Empires when I was really young, I liked it so much I built my first website ever on geocities about that game.

I loved AoE 2 when it came out too. And yeah I loved the history immersion

Capitalism 2 also, I played that extensively.

I'd have something to say to them regardless of how I felt.

Correct, I wasn't referring to custom homes.

Sure if it is opinion.

But what about things that are factual? If they don't fit your standards do you discard them?

Structural downturn in commercial real-estate in SF and other big cities. Interest rates made it worse but it isn't primarily cyclical.

Too much crime, poor quality of life, and remote work.

No one wants to live there except sycophants.

>What a very odd article to come from a think tank, it's titled and reads like something from the NY Post.

Do you actually reason about the world this way? Kinda odd.

When commercial loans are renewed (and they are because commercial loans are usually rolled over and not paid off, ie interest only) things like the occupancy rate, rent cost, creditworthiness of lessees and other things are factored into the new loan terms. So if the rental rate is lower then interest will be higher on the loan. Or the loan provider will okay a smaller portion of the loan requiring you to cough up the difference.

Example a $10m building, you put $1m down on. You go to refinance the loan and they are only willing to float you $7m now because you arent able to charge as much rent to tenants. Thus requiring you to come up with $2m or lose your $1m investment and the building.

As a general contractor, I can tell you $100/sf is about what "average" houses get built for in much of the rest of the country.

A packaged life? How is it horrifying? As if someone knows what I want better than I do?

I wake up everyday and it's a "choose your own adventure" day for me. Why would I want everything pre-configured. How could I adapt to changing circumstances if I'm locked in for the next X weeks or years on some package.

YAGNI

You aren't gonna need it (yet).

That and learn what minimally viable means like another poster said.

I do everything on my own boxes running Linux. For the last 20 years.

Thought experiment: If you were running things would you A) Put your face and name on the power structure or B) Hire goons to do that?

I lived near the Fairchild superfund site for many years. I remember when it was a hollow husk of a concrete building. And then the paved it over and put a supermarket and whatnot there.

Growing up I knew a lot of kids that were affected by it, they were called "fairchildren" or a "fairchild".

I was born elsewhere and my family moved to the area, the kids that were born there weren't so lucky.

I use rails, with some turbo/stimulus.js if I need it. Often I don't need any JS. And I can get something built in a few days or weeks at most.

Oh but "true Marxism has never been tried", they will retort.

I am currently building a permaculture farm. Continuing to dig out a pond here in about 30 minutes.

I thought they had a surplus just a few years ago.

Odd.

Depends on how well the task can be estimated ahead of time.

This reads like an advertisement for Quest 2.

Discipline and proper understanding of the goals with buy in from those involved and how a given task advances towards that goal. Productivity should follow organically from that.

Not everyone wants to architect software. The same way not everyone wants to run a business.

Me personally, I love designing a system from scratch. That is a big part of the fun of writing software for me.