Bad Economic Predictions

[TheCatt]

For example, don't build low cost housing in middle class or above areas.

Congrats, you're keeping prices high. Build more everything, everywhere.

although I don't know why you're such a self-hating elderly person...

I forgot you were in AARP, but I am not

[Leisher]

Lab made diamonds that are indistinguishable from real ones probably aren't helping.



Different question: How many things have corporations tricked us into making normal parts of life?

*cough*Valentine'sDay*cough*

[Leisher]

Apparently, I typed this yesterday and just noticed, as I'm shutting my stuff down for the weekend, that it never posted. Enjoy.

Congrats, you're keeping prices high. Build more everything, everywhere.

Build everything, everywhere and you're right, prices will drop. Mainly because it all becomes shit and nobody will want to live there. As Seinfeld said, "adjacent to garbage is garbage."

Serious question: Do economists ever look at anything except the numbers? I'm genuinely curious about that.

Anyway, if you build low income housing near middle class homes, the middle class moves away from the low income housing. That reduces "desired" inventory, which is where they're moving, and increases prices. This has been on full display throughout the U.S. (and I'm sure the rest of the world) for the better part of a century. It's indisputable. Every city, and most towns, have run down areas full of, what used to be top tier, housing that now sells for peanuts. Well...priced for peanuts because they don't actually sell.

What do they all have in common? The poors started moving in, and crime came with them. Now those top shelf houses sit abandoned.

Low income housing brings low income trouble. The middle class doesn't live in low income areas because they don't want those troubles around their families. The property values aren't decreasing just because a lower priced home went in down the street. Who is moving in and what that means for the area is the driving force.

The thing about the poors that people don't talk about is that while some are absolutely there thanks to bad luck, most are there because they're low IQ, made bad decisions, are addicts, are happy living off the government, etc. Point being, they're probably not turning the ship around...ever. They don't make for great neighbors.

To be fair, the poors aren't automatically "bad neighbors". They can be, of course (just like some rich people), but it's usually tied to the company they keep. The friends and family who aren't as interested in doing the right thing to improve their lives. I'm pretty sure I wrote a timeline somewhere on here about an apartment complex in a "better off" part of town that allowed some government residents move in. It didn't go well. It never does.

BTW, I don't give a shit if your friend Billy Bob was able to move to a better neighborhood and turned his life around. He's the exception, not the rule.

Oh, and nobody wants a mansion that's next door to an Applebee's. So no to "build everything, everywhere.

You have a prejudice against whomever you pictured as "low income" and "the poors". You're welcome.

[TheCatt]

ab made diamonds that are indistinguishable from real ones probably aren't helping.

Yeah, big fan of the fakes.

Serious question: Do economists ever look at anything except the numbers? I'm genuinely curious about that.

Well, we just turn EVERYTHING into numbers - ta dah! Happiness? Number! Economy? Number! # of times Leisher's been pegged? HUGE number!

I think bad neighbors should be handled by the police or whatever. I dunno what the exact right answer on housing is, but freezing housing like it was in 1967 (see: "historic" districts) and the like are not the answer. Rent control is not the answer. Building is the answer. How to build more and not ruin a given neighborhood, etc? Dunno.

Apparently I hate white people. I just pictured white trash.

[Leisher]

Yeah, big fan of the fakes.

Who wouldn't be? Cheap, exactly the same, and no blood. Between these and people not buying engagement rings anymore, now's a bad time to be a jeweler.

Well, we just turn EVERYTHING into numbers - ta dah! Happiness? Number! Economy? Number!

It's such a terrible way to look at things though. It fails sooooooo much.

# of times Leisher's been pegged? HUGE number!

No matter how much you wish it, I'm not letting you fuck me.

I would like to ask a dude that's been pegged, "why". Just be gay. It's the same experience, but less nagging!

I think bad neighbors should be handled by the police or whatever.

Yes, but our laws suck. Hell, look at how shitty squatter laws are when owners cannot even get people out who broke in!

but freezing housing like it was in 1967 (see: "historic" districts) and the like are not the answer. Rent control is not the answer. Building is the answer.

We completely agree on that.

[TheCatt]

No matter how much you wish it, I'm not letting you fuck me.

I have a penis, pegging = dildo, you, uh... not freak.

t's such a terrible way to look at things though. It fails sooooooo much.

Sounds like someone who's bad at numbers

I would like to ask a dude that's been pegged, "why". Just be gay. It's the same experience, but less nagging!

Never done it, but at the end of the day, I'd rather theoretically have a hot naked woman with boobs doing me than a dude, ewww. Pegging is temporary, so like I'd bang her back or something.

Hell, look at how shitty squatter laws are when owners cannot even get people out who broke in!

That is, indeed, insane.

[Leisher]

This fits what I've been saying. Jobs reports have been bullshit for a while.

[TheCatt]

Thanks, Trump.

[Leisher]

He ain't helping, but he's not the root cause.

Snap just announced they're cutting 16% of their workforce. I'll give you three guesses on what they cite as the reason why.

[TheCatt]

I'll give you three guesses on what they cite as the reason why.

Trump, Trump, and Trump?

[Leisher]

Wrong on all counts, BUT the odds of him taking credit for all things AI are pretty good.

[Leisher]

I know someone who has been saying this for years now...