They give all of us NPCs monikers like that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qASYu7EtKG8

haha

just stop spending $22 on toast, you'l be able to afford a $1m house in no time!

^ true

* by the time you save your deposit, the $1m will be $1.4m

My Nepali mate feels guilty eveytime he buys a can of coke.

cus his Dad has always made a point that he's never dropped the 35p on a can of anything.

That's Thousands of pounds

😄

Consumer goods have gotten way cheaper relative to wages since our parents' generation

Meanwhile house prices have roughly trebled since 2000 in the places where jobs are

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ipNhCCsnWN1U/v0/-1x-1.png

Or artificial land scarcity due to NIMBY policy

Correct

And the taxation of income instead of land value

Boomers love memeing about how hard they worked to build up their wealth but literally all they did was buy housing was cheap and own it through massive growth periods

This is like 2/3 of the median 60-65 year-old household's wealth in most places

Meanwhile today's generations take on debt for tertiary fees 3x higher than 1996, then the relevant jobs are in cities with impossibly-high house prices, so they spend a much longer time paying rent (a generational transfer up to the boomers, by the way), and when they do gather enough for a mortgage they sink a large chunk of their lifetime income on paying interest. All while paying income tax the whole time.

These are the boots holding upward mobility down: tertiary fees, rent, income tax, mortgage interest

Solutions: tax land value, cut income tax, deregulate land use, murder NIMBYs

Thx for coming to my tedtalk

You live next door to your parents, if they’re still healthy WTF 😅

3-waters infrastructure, local roads, zoning legislation & decision-making, community services, parks?

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I mean, it's obviously paying for something

@24601🚄🔰🌐 shut up greyfag

Go consult their finance info

Tell us which parts of their spending is pointless

we live in a society

Dude

My eyes look fucking cool

I’m inebriated enough that I don’t really recognize my face as my own

I forgot what it’s called

Something to do with mirror sensing

But looking in the mirror I’m reminded how cool my eyes look

it's all good

you don't like the things the council spends money on

some of them I'd prob agree with, some are probably pointless

I just find "we're paying £100/mo for nothing!!" to be a little empty

My council spent over a million on a magna carter celebration day

Still can't spell