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You will be able to rent a whole Meta datacenter with thousands of NVIDIA B200 for $5/hour. AWS will become unprofitable due to abundance of capacity...
That's sounds nice. I can run FLUX or SDXL on all those NVIDIAs and fill the Internet with porn.
I have got news for you...
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A decent Flat in Germany, for example near Stuttgart, with good connections with train is about 300k. There are credit lines for 25 years with relative low interest rates. For that you are way lower than 3k per month (assuming 0 downpayment). With 2 people working in a household, you can afford that. Granted, you will not be the "typical" german doing 3 times a year nice vacations. But doing a "real" 1 or 2 week vaca…
I live in the middle of nowhere in Northern Germany. A house where you wont have to tear down the whole place starts at 400k. And that's a basic small sub 100m^2 house with no garden. Sorry but I wont get myself into 40 year debt for a bungalow. After my father's death we sold our old family home for ~70k€ 15 years ago. It would have been in the 300-400k range nowadays. My salary certainly did not double - triple in…
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It's do-able, but the housing crisis needs to be resolved. People will never own a house if they didn't have skin in the game by 2021. Salaries are not rising to match housing price inflation. Specifically, both house prices and interest need to go down heavily. Sadly, they used higher interest to try to lower prices, and that didn't really bring prices down. More supply isn't helping much either, as there is no dive…
> house prices [...] need to go down heavily. As a layperson I have a feeling that's not going to happen. The working class has too much wealth tied up in their homes because US society and the government have encouraged people to treat it as a store of wealth instead of a box that shields them from the weather. People talk constantly about "getting on the property ladder", "buying more land because they aren't makin…
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A woman who intentionally went corporate and avoided having kids, and wasted her maternal instincts on someone else's profits, will suffer when their body clock catches up to them, and the company leaves them behind. You can't go back and get pregnant. And your marriage probably ended in divorce already anyway by now, which is a whole more amount of suffering.
Why do you feel the need to tell others how to live their lives?, frustration with your own?
Everyone is on a journey, and the path their journey takes is partially the choices made. People are allowed to think hard about their choices, and the choices of others.
If they want their path to go their, so be it, and but it's cruel to not discuss the ramifications of choices made.
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Increased production has always just lead to more stuff being made, not more people unemployed. When even our grandparents were kids a new shirt was something you’d take care of, as you don’t get a new one very often. Now we head on to Target and throw 5 into our cart on a whim. Were there less weavers with machines now doing the job (or whatever?). Sure. But it balances out. It’s just bumpy. The big change here is t…
But nobody can afford stuff.
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Having many kids is often because of a necessity like cheap workforce for the family or high child mortality. Kids can be fun but also can be really exhausting. How many kids are really born just for having am offspring and not because of other reasons. If people can consciously decide to have or not to have kids my bet is on falling birth rates. For stable population you need two kids per couple and first could be a…
I have a partner and we are the age where we need to decide if we want to have kids or not. Genuinely curious - what are some reasons to have kids aside from “just having offspring”?
If you are jumping around from project to project, odds are that lack of commitment stems from lack of pressure.
No one wants pressure though… it’s hell.
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Exactly. Zoning laws affect lot sizes, remove them as in Houston or most other countries and the problem disappears.
Rural America often doesn’t have “zoning laws”. That hasn’t stopped my home price from more than doubling since 2012.
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Why do you feel the need to tell others how to live their lives?, frustration with your own?
I'm not telling them how to live their lives. I'm just predicting the path that is made based on the choices made. Everyone is on a journey, and the path their journey takes is partially the choices made. People are allowed to think hard about their choices, and the choices of others. If they want their path to go their, so be it, and but it's cruel to not discuss the ramifications of choices made.
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Bingo! And that's on government. Remove (or relax) those now by decree and rent prices drop tomorrow
Government? Or the people? These are local government issues, they're not that far detached from the people who elect them.
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Supply is driven by demand unless there is a monopoly in house building (there isn't). If this wasn't the case, one could quickly become a billionaire by starting first company that build small houses that are supposedly in demand but not provided by the market
Why build a 500k house on your expensive lot when you can build a 1.5M house. Capitalism does not in any way optimize for the middle class