Thread 941052578

You need to have a somewhat high income and a working partner to buy a house nowadays.

But in the '50s, a factory worker with 5 kids and a stay-at-home mom, could afford to buy a decent house without working overtime.

What happened?

>>941052578 (OP)
You kids don't understand basic budgeting. Quit buying your avocados on toast and actually SAVE!

>>941052578 (OP)
Because in the '50s that stay-at-home mom was a stay-at-home mom. She didnt join the workforce, bringing the salaries down.
if you have a problem with salary vs real estate prices ratio going down, then go and complain about women joining the workforce and immigrants joining the workforce
>i dont want to say anything that might sound as if im..
then shut up

>>941052578 (OP)
>what happened
boomers

>>941052578 (OP)
houses only cost about two years salary in the fifties. today they are are about five years salary. inflation has destroyed the value of money relatively speaking so everything you buy requires more of your cash. wages have fallen since the 50s so you make relatively much less today than you did back then. blame politicians for favoring the rich and corporations, and destroying unions. blame americans for favoring cheap shitty goods manufactured overseas by people making pennies thereby causing loss of american labor.

>>941052578 (OP)
houses were $16000
Usable used car $1000


if you make a list of everyone in the usa

top 3 people have more then the bottom 100 million people COMBINED

things are top heavy, gonea get freaky.....

Israel and Argentina have public healthcare that anyone can afford

>>941052578 (OP)
Bankers buy up all the houses to throttle the supply, boosting prices, and making people go to banks for loans.
Friends of the bankers import people from other places to further boost demand.

>>941052578 (OP)
jews

>>941053067
How's the quality of care, though? Is there long wait times?

>>941052920
>top 3 people have more then the bottom 100 million people COMBINED
thats completely irrelevant to the house prices, its just something for the financially illiterate to complain about. If Bezos', Musk's networth went up 100x, it wouldnt make any difference in the life of the masses, but theyre too dumb to comprehend that

>>941052578 (OP)
idk

>>941053583
Where do you think that wealth comes from you absolute retard

>>941052578 (OP)
suffrage happened

>>941055738
coupons.

>>941056083
You're right, they probably made coffee at home too