• the_q@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    61
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    11 months ago

    It’s even worse now that boutique builders are making tiny homes with aged cheddar wood and once in a century nails and crap. Houses in general should have never been made financial investments. It’s shelter.

    • explodicle@local106.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      11 months ago

      Serious question: What ought to be a financial investment? Nothing? Points that are otherwise worthless?

      • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        11 months ago

        Anything that is meant to be consumed should not be an investment, anything that in an ideal society should be cheaper to purchase for the betterment of that society, should not be an investment.

        Companies that produce those things, ideally better or more efficient every year for various reasons, those should be investments.

        We should invest in banana farmers, not bananas. Likewise we should invest in construction companies, not houses.

      • theneverfox@pawb.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        11 months ago

        Nothing sounds pretty good to me

        Why should you be able to take your extra money to generate more extra money for later? Maybe if that wasn’t an option, more people would spend that money on themselves or their community