• Tja@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    If that’s their whole retirement investment (as they said it’s their only income, no idea about us retirement details) if they don’t increase your rent, their net income will GO DOWN. Prices of everything also went up for them, if you think it’s hard with constant income, imagine with declining income.

    The value of their house going up is useless to pay for bread.

    You should get a bigger paycheck, average wage growth is around 5% in the US, higher than inflation even.

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      Sounds like they should get an actual job, rather than expecting someone else to pay for their retirement; someone who probably won’t get to retire themselves

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        If it’s their only income source I assume they are retired. If they aren’t, you are absolutely right.

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          Why do we have to sacrifice our future ability to retire and own a house because they bought all the houses and retired first?

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            How are the two related? It’s not a zero sum game, there’s new houses being built all the time.

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              There are studies recently released that show that the people who are buying houses 20 years ago are the same people buying houses today. It is a zero-sum game because nobody else is able to buy a house, especially not if they’re younger.