Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels

Post by ethbr1 » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 4:33 PM UTC

apwell23 wrote: post #8

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I love the lack of sympathy for tech workers across North America or perhaps even globally, when tech hub salaries still don’t allow tech workers to even have a middle class lifestyle. Very few people I know get paid enough to buy a starter home within 2 or 3 hours of where they work. I get paid more than my non tech peers yet still functionally have less spending power than a 25 year old from 30 years ago, despite b…

US middle class cleaved into two groups post pandemic: homeowners at 2% interest rates and everyone else. Its the new middleclass have and have nots. You have it pretty good right now if you are a homeowner.

Post by throwitaway222 » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 4:37 PM UTC

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Controlling inflation will hopefully be the main discussion around the next election, I am tired of watching the political theater around small side-issues and then paying $8 for milk and $6 for peanut butter. Why is our labor becoming worth less in real goods? Why is life expectancy decreasing? Can politicians address issues that affect every single person every day? I make good money in tech but it still feels like…

> Controlling inflation will hopefully be the main discussion around the next election You're conflating inflation with market gouging. Why would your local grocery store drop the price of milk? What's the incentive? You probably haven't stopped buying milk, I bet none of your neighbors have stopped buying milk. In most of the country you have at most 2 grocery chains that are probably mega-chains, and they have no i…

Post by throwitaway222 » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 4:38 PM UTC

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #17

ericmcer wrote: post #14

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Controlling inflation will hopefully be the main discussion around the next election, I am tired of watching the political theater around small side-issues and then paying $8 for milk and $6 for peanut butter. Why is our labor becoming worth less in real goods? Why is life expectancy decreasing? Can politicians address issues that affect every single person every day? I make good money in tech but it still feels like…

So you want deflation?

Post by refulgentis » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 4:40 PM UTC

dehrmann wrote: post #16

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US middle class cleaved into two groups post pandemic: homeowners at 2% interest rates and everyone else. Its the new middleclass have and have nots. You have it pretty good right now if you are a homeowner.

In theory, those homes should start going down in value once people start selling because you can buy less home for a $2,000 per month mortgage payment. The market's weird right now because a lot of people with low interest rates can't afford to sell and buy something comparable.

Post by spencerflem » Mon, Apr 08, 2024, 4:43 PM UTC

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As of this moment 100% of comments have to do with “I guess other people have a lot of money”. Very weird thing to be concerned about. Personally I didn’t care about the eclipse until recently. Then I realized then when the next one happens in North America, my son will be in his 20s and I will be in my 60s. I got the idea that it will be cool to (G-d willing) see that one together and remember how we saw this one to…