This is a great lifehack to get a mega-corp landlord

As an added benefit, they’ll squeeze you for every extra penny they can, which is great if you’re into financial domination. Best part is that you will be helping support extreme wealth inequality

Or at least I assume those are the reasons. IDK, I support small landlords over mega-corporations

It’s less about the car specifically as it is about what the car says about your level of wealth and spending habits

It was only ever a tiny fringe that did that

This is exactly what the OP is about

I don’t feel democrats are going to do anything for me. Yet I still feel heavy pressure to vote for then

The Democrat party is so incompetent. The election losses are their fault. Stop shaming people for not voting for a platform they hate, and shame the party for a terrible platform of inaction

If you live in the US Empire, you can be a part of the movement to end it

That’s objectively bad messaging. ‘End the US Empire’ is so trivial to paint as purely anti-American. Not only will fail to win over more than a tiny fraction of people, but anyone part of it will be easily discredited

How would ‘end the US Empire’ ever be a popular idea in America? Even assuming it is a moral platform, it can only ever be a fringe idea in America

Homes don’t generate value though. Nothing more is being created by them existing. How can it possibly be an investment generating more wealth when the underlying asset remains unchanged?

It’s just a pyramid scheme to expect the same exact home to continue going up in value as an investment. The only possible result is a shortage of housing with unreasonably high prices

How does a detached single family home prevent honking? Why haven’t you explained to my neighbors they have to stop honking? Because they definitely still do, and it is still a nuisance

Detached homes definitely have many benefits, but they’re incredibly expensive. If we didn’t subsidize them so much, we’d have a whole lot more people living in denser housing. The US has something like 85% single family homes compared to around 40% in Germany

It’s not that Germans are just so much better neighbors that they can put up with shared walls/spaces. It’s just not worth the cost of a detached home when it isn’t as heavily subsidized (they do still subsidize them compared to dense housing options)

TL;DR - Detached homes are fine, but we need to quit giving such massive subsidizes to them