i just want a small property with a yard and a couple trees and room to grow some plants and tinker on projects
if only i didn't spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on avocado toast in my 20s
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I just don't want to be homeless when I am old. That's all I want. Having food and housing. A two room apartment for me and my husband would be nice. If I can use the public transport on top of that, I'm all set. A three room apartment would be a luxury and being able to go out every once in a while would be absolutely astronomical.
(I also want to have healthcare but I am in Germany so I got that going for me which is nice. )
Take a look at moneybags over here being able to afford avocado toast!
Modest home. Stone fruit trees. Nice big pole barn for projects.
My wife and I have been searching for community and reasonable housing costs. My data analyst self began mad research of all sorts for about a year. Then, we moved into a vehicle and explored for eight months.
Boots on the ground, we learned that everything is much, much better if you're at least 40 minutes from the closest Walmart. This is harder than it seems. It'll likely be an hour+ commute to a workplace with decent pay. But, it's been consistently true wherever we've traveled (US): No Walmart nearby means a solid community and cheap land.
We found a place we like. My wife accepted a job offer today. We bought a 14' enclosed utility trailer and will build a temporary home in the two weeks before we leave, avoiding rent and mortgage until we find the perfect piece of land.
My plan was to steal one from a real estate company but i can try your thing
Tax the rich
Feed the poor
Till there ain't no
Rich no more
Incidentally, no
Poor no more
Either
What?!? But then how will I know who I'm BETTER than?!?
I have a dream that we will one day live in a nation where we are judged not by the size of our bank account, but by the content of our character.
(Spoilers: we won't.)
If you ever figure out where that nation is, let me know and I'll start packing.
They won't accept large scale immigration.
That's because they judge people on the content of their character, and, well, most people suck.
Not me though. I'm pretty damn rad.
Self education.
Trying to get rich is the selfish version of “every man for himself”, building a more equal society is the empathetic one: in a fair society there are no threats to seek your own life.
Nah I definitely want both. My current hobbies are expensive. My dream hobby of getting a pilots license and a small plane would be really expensive.
So you want the freedom of getting a pilots license and a small plane.
I want wealth to be an indicator of a well-rounded member of society, instead of its current role as a proxy for sociopathy.
Also, how about relabelling excessive financial accumulation as something along the lines of ‘financial obesity’.
If you live in a society where you work a 40 hour week and you STILL can't afford basic things like shelter, food, utilities and healthcare, then the rich are stealing too goddamn much from you.
We can, but it requires not having billionaires.
No more billionaires, but everyone can be a millionaire.
The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.
It puzzles me why leftist parties don't all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.
It puzzles me why leftist parties don't all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.
They all do. My best guess as to why you'd say this is that you're including Democrats.
edit: Or, I could be a self-centered American that didn't consider others. I'll do better.
At risk of a strawman...
The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.
That's what's best for equality and for economic growth. Does this mean Democrats are horribly incompetent? Perhaps it's that equality and economic growth aren't their goals.
It puzzles me why leftist parties don't all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.
Functionally, we don't have one. The closest is the Green Party, but they're so powerless that they may as well not exist.
You're wrong. It doesn't require no money. It requires that you have rejected the sucker for money.
Only in a perfect world.
This is literally the future Jesus' theoretical return presents but a lot of (not all) Christians aren't on board.
Yeah, people have believed in dumb shit like that since our species emerged from the primordial ooze.
Only in any world that doesn't die shortly thereafter.
This world isn't going to die.
It's just going to change.
Our species might though.
Depends on the path we take. They're after my truth.
I just want freedom period. If that means being rich then I guess I’ll do that
That's not freedom. Money is always a trap.
Not sure what your point is old man, but I can't get the freedom that the rich enjoy without being rich.
Deluding myself into a state of bliss when the mortgage is due doesn't help anyone, especially me.
What if ... there were no rich people?
Then there would be no reason to go above and beyond.
You're saying all human ambition is based on money-hunger and thankfully that is false.
Not all, but a majority of labor people do is to make money. What reason do I have to work extra hard for if not for financial gain?
That’s a Bingo!