What happened to Foxtrot?  I was thinking about him the other day, but couldn't remember his username.  I haven't seen him post in a long time.

“If you don’t want to work all day, night, and every second in between, your lazy and if you don’t succeed by working yourself into the ground you did not work hard enough”-someone here

It’s almost like people don’t understand it’s not the 80/90s anymore, that “ working hard and playing by the rules” does not and and will not result in success.

We buy Costco Kirkland diapers and they are about $40 a box.  Pretty normal to pick up 2 boxes at a time.

Throw in milk, bread, a box of wipes at $10-20 bucks, and taxes.....real easy to see how that trip could add up to $130.

Stop blaming it for everything wrong in the world and terminate the ones tell it kill itself.

“The west isn’t committing suicide it’s being murdered, and those were doing it have names and addresses”-Sam Hyde

Shit, I am a millennial and I wouldn't want to buy my house NOW.  I paid 260k for my house 10yrs ago.  I could sell it for close to 600k.  No fucking way I would want to be buying it now at 5-6% interest.

That would require some sacrifice. Nah fuck that lets just bitch. Every generation has their issues. My dad was drafted into Vietnam, bet that sucked way worse than not having gourmet protein bars and double venti frappy mocha.

So what you’re saying is make it harder to get a job by requesting more education/credentalism, print more money for welfare for millions of new invaders who will magically reduce housing costs?/s

And what about when they make North Korea come to you?

He's around.  I saw that tidbit from him a day or so ago.  Wanted to tip my hat to a succinct explanation of the issue.  I'll see if I can find the post(s).

These threads are really repetitive, kind of pointless, and a lot of us have better things to do.  I should be doing them, actually.

No struggling hot babes no care.
Real men don't whine.

And that’s the thing, even if you do keep grinding it out and finally get your head above water, do you really want your children to go through the same thing or even worse?

So many young people say they don’t want to have kids just because they’d be condemning them to a life of pointless suffering. All you’re doing is working to stay alive, there’s no real joy or happiness to it.

I personally don’t hold that belief but if you really don’t feel like you have anything better to offer hypothetical kids, I understand why so many people have that position.

I'm gonna try my best to spend less than $2000 buying shit at the Hamvention this year.  

That reminds me, gotta send in one of the last mortgage payments.  Living like a poor pays off, I suppose.

Holy shit, you mean to say it's not the boomer's fault?

Wow.

3x's the fed minimum wage is about $21...

Everyone seems to be forgetting very few places in the US pay the Fed minimum wage any more. Most states are well about that.

Last week, California just up'ed their min to $20... Around here on Long Island, McDonalds starting pay is $20...

So this guy has a job paying "teenager entry level" money, and wonders why he cant get ahead? Seriously?

Places like starbucks and McDonalds are not careers until you get to the manager level, which very few do... They are jobs to start out, get some work experience, get a healthy work ethic, and get a recommendation to go find a better job. That cycle may take two or three times doing that, before you land in a career.

If you have zero skills and do nothing to change that, it may be a loooong time before you ever get higher than entry level jobs.

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I sympathize somewhat, but here are a few things to consider:

The guy is making $22/hr.  Dish washers in CA now make $20 MINIMUM.  He needs to get a better job, and to do that he needs to become MORE VALUABLE to an employer.

When I was a young lad, I made the minimum wage of $1.65.  You read that right.  If I had been making 3X ($4.95), I could not have afforded to do jack sh*t on that wage.  

He might have voted R, or maybe not.  Doesn't matter.  Unless him and all his friends and their friends vote R, the Rs cannot help them.  Elections have consequences.  Voting has consequences.

He needs to get a trade, or a STEM degree.  Become more valuable.

He also needs to get a roommate or three.  You know, someone to share the rent with until he has the cash to go it alone.

Bidenflation isn't going anywhere soon.  Sucks, but that's the way it is.

no, no it has not.

Hate to break it to ya, but not every independent is a liberal. Some of us just don’t want to associate with the joke that is the Republican Party.

Independence has consequences, too.

Don’t worry I voted for the guy who spent all the money causing the inflation.

Bidenflation is called that because....?

Who sent out all the checks and stuff during Covid?

Pales in comparison to what's going on now.  And it's not going to stop until:

The War on Energy is squashed.

The border crashers are stopped.  You know, the guys competing with the least skilled Americans for a job, and competing with Americans for lowest rent housing.  They hot-cot it, 10 to an apt.  IDK any Americans willing to do that, do you?

This is where you point out that an $1800/mth apartment on a take-home of $2800/ mth doesn’t work.

10 illegals sharing that apt. is $180 per illegal/mo.  Can't compete with that.

I voted for the less retarded option in 2020. I’ll likely vote for him again. But the inflation started on his watch. He spent a shitload of money and expected what? Prices to not go up? What a joke.

You mean there's differing opinions in GD?!?

Shocking...

Apparently it's the part where we must all bow down to the wisdom of some dweeb whining that he can't afford to live as he thinks he should, on $22/hour.

Inflation started on Biden's inaugural.  Look at the chart.

Energy cos. saw the writing on the wall.  Biden declared war on them and they passed the cost onto America.  

Apt. owners ditto.  They can charge what they want and rent to the illegals who are more than happy to pay and jam in 10 per unit.

Ask me how I know about owning rentals.

That's the way elections work.

I live.

Here's my posts - about housing prices:

So this is a fractional lending pyramid scheme.

We’ve seen it on arfcom.  How many times have you heard the advice that you should get a rental?

Major investment companies are both buying houses themselves and funding third party companies to buy houses in cash.  Now that those houses are paid for, they can loan against them. Fractional lending. This money can be dumped back into the market, or otherwise utilized.

What is going to happen and we are seeing this now, thus the thread. The eyes are on them. So the large companies will start to pull out of this market.  Smaller companies will be buying up the assets. Then get caught when regulationation happens upon them.


The next scam that is brewing is apartments. It’s already starting on the small scale.  What do you think is going to happen to the billions of square feet of office space that isn’t being utilize and whose rent comes up in the next 1-3 years or less?


Apartments.  Cost saving apartments. As these companies, who own and are buying these towers, won’t go broke on their billions of dollars of investments in this infrastructure and property.

They’re going to come up with “luxury” low cost apartments in these spaces. And suddenly solve the housing “crisis” that they fixed.

In the meantime, your normal person will be getting caught with their pants down as their 800k house they bought in 2023, is actually only worth 300k. So they will be in negative equity city down the road, when no one can afford houses.


It’s a pump and dump pyramid scheme. No different than corporate raiding of companies in the 80s and 90s. Just a different market.

To further my above thought instead of an edit.


Boomers and the generation before them (I refuse to say the greatest anymore) - are focused on creating money, not value.  


This was brought to me in another thread yesterday. When I was told I should sell my company and just invest in the S&P500 instead of dealing with a high risk, low margin business.

Instead of creating value, people are concerned about creating money. This was the idea of corporate raiding and also off shoring production. Yes, it’s cheaper when you don’t actually have to build the thing you sell. It’s cheaper when you don’t have any employees. It’s cheaper when you’re just a brand trading cash. But there’s no value to that. You’re not creating anything.


Same with eventually, the stock market.

People will need fuels and lubricants for my entire life time.  I provide a service and create a thing. It’s low margin, high risk. Where as right now the S&P is low risk. But, this too will change. Fractional lending will eventually be ground down by interest rates. And we will run out of money that can be produced.  Then, we will have to create value again.


Politicians don’t create value. They have never created value or a good in their life.  All they do is create and spend money.

It sounds better than "we elected a guy that initiated an unprecedented inflation that was rubberstamped by a bipartisan congress and was kept going by the next administration"

We started seeing the effects of the government spending under Trump after Biden won sure. But that would have started under Trump regardless. You can’t run up a deficit of 3.1 trillion dollars, send thousands out to everyone and anyone, and expect prices to remain the same or go lower. It’s backwards economic thinking.

Stop. Voting. For. Democrats!.

Yeah but 87million of his friends and dead relatives didnt.

LOL.

Biden turbocharged inflation with declaring war on energy and opening the borders.  Democrats have consequences.

I take that back: Biden twin-turbo'd inflation and bumped the boost to max.

Uh huh.  It was just a mere coincidence that turbo-inflation BEGAN the exact day Biden was elected.

We are buying Diapers for our brand new baby grand daughter.
Unless you bought a helluva lot of Diapers...
Your math is not adding up?  At least in Texas.....

Regardless, things are much more expensive.

There he is.  My gray matter knows you as "that oil guy," and you changed your avatar pic at some point.

He makes $45,000 a year before overtime. What’s the problem?

He’s not wrong. Housing is fucking retarded right now. Groceries are expensive.

Of course he did but let's not pretend that 2020 happened under Democrat watch. Don't forget who's signature is on TARP either. The GOP is just as guilty. Maybe even more so since they pretend to be fiscally responsible.

But he can afford a cell phone with unlimited data.  He is a tick tock idiot.

Let's not forget who's sig is on Obamacare.  Or Build Back Better.  Or $60B in abandonded military gear that had to be replaced.  Or a wide open border.  Or the Inflation Protection Act.

I could go on.

ETA: Or the Russian invasion of Ukr.

It would have started regardless of who was president. 2020 was an irresponsible spending year that flooded the market with money. You can’t increase the monetary supply like we did and expect things to remain the same. You can’t increase deficit spending and expect things to remain the same. The facts don’t support it. Blither blather all you want about “well it started on this day” it doesn’t change how much Trump spent.

Don’t worry, I’ll still vote for the less retarded geriatric come November.

My old apprentice paid $1100 for his two bedroom that he split with a buddy.

He made over $100k a year with a high school diploma.

I have no sympathy for people who choose to remain where they cannot "afford to live".

That's your theory and you're welcome to it.

The charts don't lie.

"Just a coincidence!"  lol