• CableMonster@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Why do you want free universities for degrees that actually give a net benefit?

    And the reason housing is so expensive is directly due to government intervention in housing.

    • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      because I’m not a piece of shit and want to see my fellow Americans do better. a rising tide lifts all boats.

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          Wow TIL all degrees are useless.

          What’d you get your degree in? Maybe you got a useless one.

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              Dude you must think they get their degrees in feminist dance or some boogeyman degree. News flash you want some people to get good jobs with that “useless” feminist dance degree. Because if not, they’re going to crowd into degrees like engineering and greater numbers of engineering grads creates greater competition for engineering jobs… which drives down the pay that most engineers get, plus it reduces the odds of actually getting a starter engineering job. Supply & demand.

              Signed, 100% NOT a feminist.

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                The market pretty much tells us what are useful and useless degrees. The issue with your theory is that people do crowd into engineering and then the joke is after they fail they do business.

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                  So when they shipped computer engineering jobs overseas the market was saying computer engineering is useless? Man you really know a lot of things that simply aren’t true.

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                    Its probably much more complicated than you are implying it is. Are people with computer engineering unable to get jobs? If the answer is no, then the supply of computer engineers is probably not enough in america or it could be something completely different and could be related to manufacturing.

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      7 months ago

      And the reason housing is so expensive is directly due to government intervention in housing.

      Fuck off you conservative dipshit, try your incredibly wrong talking points somewhere people aren’t gonna see right through it

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      That’s 100 percent, certified bullshit.

      Government could fix housing SUPER fast. Tax rental payments on single-family homes at 100% to make SFR build-to-rent impossible.

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          I work in municipal development.

          100% of new single-family developments approaching the city over the last 2 years have been for build-to-rent exclusively. The existing SFR homes are being bought up at massively inflated prices to convert them into rentals.

          The only reliable way to buy a home for your family to live in within 50 miles of the city is to buy empty land and have a custom million+ dollar house built, because the existing inventory is being grabbed up by rental investors and new inventory isn’t even being made available for sale.

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        Sure, in short housing is too difficult and too expensive to build to keep up with demand. All this is due to government requirements on housing which adds over $100k on average per single family house, as well as it just being a general headeache. And this doesnt even get into the currency manipulation issue.

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          What requirements though?

          And the government doesn’t control monetary policy, so can you expand on that too?

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            There are probably 1000 different requirements for each small town and then add the state and national ones to that. The requirements will be things like getting an engineering report if you remove more than 10 yards of dirt, or add a roof element that makes the house look good.

            The government does control the supply of money via the Federal Reserve. If you are interested I can tell you how it directly makes the rich richer and takes the wealth of the middle class and poor.

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              The fed is independent. If you’d like, I can give you a primer on how that works

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              waaaaaaa regulation makes stuff more expensive to do, get rid of it so we can make money at the expense of the ppooooooooorrrrrrssss

              Classic conservative