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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Prices adjust to what people can afford. When you have people who can pay whatever you are asking, prices go up.

Same goes with loans. In fact, you some times you can't even get a loan for an affordable house if it is in a location where the bank feels is hard to sell

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Prices adjust to what people can afford.

What were you born in 2009? Prices have been outrageously detached from reasonable interpretations of "affordability" for ages and banks are more than happy to collect interest for the rest of your life.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This is because some people still can afford to pay outrageous prices or willing (forced) to go into unreasonable debt.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, those damn people who refuse to be homeless are ruining it for everyone

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I think you're reading into this, what you want to read and not what I'm saying

My point was that if we all started from scratch, and fortunes weren't passed over from generations to generations, the social and economic gap would be smaller

Prices would adjust to what people could pay

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Prices adjust to what people can afford

Ehhhhh only to what it can be reliably sold for, not to what most people can afford. If 10% of people are multimillionaires (and they are in the US) but 40% of people don't even have $500 to their name (also is the case in the US) you can absolutely continue to see a housing market that is in part just passing wealth around that top 15%, especially if they can turn around and rent the investment properties to the bottom 50% to make even more money

Now, things do get really interesting when the wealthy aren't interested in the property in a given area, and the market flips from ponzi scheme to actually being houses that people can realistically afford and do live in. Of course such places also tend to be on the knife edge of also being mortgage deserts because they tend to be very small towns with dwindling populations