Ha! I remember my feelings of literal dumbfoundedness upon realizing the majority of people see housing as an investment, no different than stocks…And then those same people looking at me like I have two heads about the idea of looking for ways to lower rent, and then eventually housing costs.
Oh yeah it’s totally fucked. I spent a fair amount of time in South America and when locals expressed to me they wanted “what we have” (in North America) I’d go into great detail about how every dumpster behind every grocery store was locked behind razor wire with thousands of pounds of edible food and people who couldn’t afford to rent an up(per)scale place would get fucked with and arrested for trying to live off the grid on the outskirts of town. They literally couldn’t believe that a culture so wealthy would treat their people like that, but it makes sense that none of these elements of our culture made it into the Hollywood content they were consuming at the time.
In most parts of the world if you need to build a fuckin shack to keep the rain off yourself and your family you just do it. Like our species has done for literally tens of thousands of years, naturally.
This was pre mainstream Internet, so I think a lot of those veils have finally been lifted with all of this information sharing. Good.
Ha! I remember my feelings of literal dumbfoundedness upon realizing the majority of people see housing as an investment, no different than stocks…And then those same people looking at me like I have two heads about the idea of looking for ways to lower rent, and then eventually housing costs.
The anglosphere is so cooked.
Oh yeah it’s totally fucked. I spent a fair amount of time in South America and when locals expressed to me they wanted “what we have” (in North America) I’d go into great detail about how every dumpster behind every grocery store was locked behind razor wire with thousands of pounds of edible food and people who couldn’t afford to rent an up(per)scale place would get fucked with and arrested for trying to live off the grid on the outskirts of town. They literally couldn’t believe that a culture so wealthy would treat their people like that, but it makes sense that none of these elements of our culture made it into the Hollywood content they were consuming at the time.
In most parts of the world if you need to build a fuckin shack to keep the rain off yourself and your family you just do it. Like our species has done for literally tens of thousands of years, naturally.
This was pre mainstream Internet, so I think a lot of those veils have finally been lifted with all of this information sharing. Good.