I'm just seeing if anyone has context for why tourism is causing problems in Spain? It seems the protesters are targeting white people.
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (40)
sorted by:
Shut the fuck up pinko.
Most people will be able to afford a house in their life time, the problem is that the age where it is possible is getting older, specifically for lower class and lower-middle class issue.
Older people who have saved longer, and middle-class people have a 2nd property that they will try to rent out because their mechanism for building wealth is inherently unsafe. You can only work so long in the corporate latter and get so much income, so the rest of your asset wealth has to be built through another means. Since pensions are frauds, and investments are sketchy at best right now, and starting a business is excruciating at best; then owning land is the most assured way of increasing your wealth over time.
Everyone should do it. It's a good idea. Your refusal to save money, your need to be resentful of others, your love for theft, and your hunger to be a corporate wage slave is not a justifiable reason to declare that someone else doesn't "deserve" that wealth. They have a right to defend their property from you, because they actually earned it, unlike what you're looking to do.
You're ignorant of reality. I work with the middle-class literally every day (and I'm not one of them). They exist. Secondly, I can work with people to get them homes, even with limited income. Homes can be acquired by anyone, the issue is how much you have in savings, whether or not you reliably pay your debts, and the quality and size of your house.
Here's an example. This house is the price of less than a year of income for most people. Even with no cash on hand, you can easily get a loan for a house like this if you have decent credit. You can improve the lot and the property with minimal effort over the span of 3-5 years and upgrade it and take the equity into your new mortgage. Simple things like improved internet, better landscape, better furniture & appliances, and you'll be able to make a profit when you sell it. That is the wealth building that people need (even if they never make more than $30k a year).
I see this shit literally every day. I teach people this shit every day.
I explicitly avoided bringing up stock investments. Assets are shit every single person buys every day. If you can buy silver, you can buy assets. Asset wealth comes in all sorts of different forms at all sorts of price points. Most people just don't invest in assets that appreciate well over time. Housing and land is one of those that can actually do it fairly reliably with a little action on your part.
See above, my attitude saves lives and builds families.
Investing in asset wealth is working for your money. Installing a nicer sink is literally what that is.
Your whole statement here is a lie. Everyone earns their keep from their work, whether you think it's the 'right amount' or not. Almost none of it is from circumstance. Blue collar jobs are paid wildly well, and it's mostly the white-collar jobs that aren't seeing any wage growth.
Again, I know this more intimately than your resentful doom-mongering does. I live this shit.