• the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    1 year ago

    but that would take an unreasonable amount of work and effort

    and your hesitation in comparison because of said difficulty is precisely the reason i did.

    I feel like maybe there’s a language barrier or you hate the joke, dunno. The comic works because buying a house is harder than in the past and trying to convince some people of that is often impossible. Rather than understand, some people seem almost like they would rather not understand.

    If you keep looking, you might find one of those folks yourself

    • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world
      25·
      1 year ago

      The comic works because buying a house is harder than in the past and trying to convince some people of that is often impossible.

      I never argued it’s as easy as it used to be. I mean, I didn’t buy a house when I was a baby, but my parents did (when I was a baby, not them) and they didn’t have any issues afaik. I surely had to work way harder than they ever did for a home that was arguably worse in quality and I never said otherwise.

      The comic to me seems to imply the idea that to buy a home you’d have to do something ridiculous and unreasonable (such as letting your dad die earlier), which isn’t the case. It is more ridiculous and less reasonable than it used to be, I’m not arguing that at all.

        • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world
          13·
          1 year ago

          Are you somehow magically bound to the place you live right now? My point never was that you could work at walmart for a year slipping tips down your sock until you can reach the downpayment for your malibu villa, if you don’t mind me exaggerating.