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  • My dude. You can just look at the current stock market and compare it to the Nifty 50 bubble from the late 70’s to see how fucked everything is about to become.

    You don’t need anything you just said. You’re just making excuses to avoiding engaging with the very valid points I made because you incorrectly assume I don’t have a masters in economics likely more recent that yours.

    So here’s a bunch of easily comprehensible facts that competely disproves your bullshit entirely:

    https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/nar-2025-profile-of-home-buyers-sellers-reveals-market-extremes

    First-time home buyers now make up just 21% of the market—the lowest share since NAR began tracking.

    First time home buyers are at record lows.

    The median age of first-time buyers is 40—a record high

    Highest average home buying age ever recorded is now, and it’s 40.

    Which means, clearly, for the first time ever recorded, Americans need to work into their 40’s to be able to buy their FIRST HOUSE. You likely bought your first house when that average was 20.

    the typical age of home sellers this year is 64, the highest ever recorded… those between the ages of 60 and 78, are the largest share of both home buyers and sellers—moving markets more than younger generations often due to their better financial position.

    Younger generations do not have boomer money. They don’t because real wages have stayed stagnant for 40 years.

    https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/

    … despite the strong labor market, wage growth has lagged economists’ expectations. In fact, despite some ups and downs over the past several decades, today’s real average wage (that is, the wage after accounting for inflation) has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago.

    So a 2026 dollar is now worth about the same as a dollar earned in 1989. Wages have not grown, only prices. So Americans can’t afford homes until their 40’s.

    This is basic economics. I don’t even need to calculate trends or slopes to understand how this is just cause and effect.

    You have no idea what you’re talking about. Please read the above to expand your education rather than hiding behind it as if it’s something incomprehensible.


  • What was the average age of homebuyers when you were young? Was it over 40 like it is now? No. How many times have you had federal minimum wage increase when you were young? It’s increased 0 times in the last two decades. Likely close to 11 for you. What was the rate of suicide in adults over 20 when you were young? Currently it’s the 3rd highest rate of death in 2026 just under heart disease and cancer.

    You have near monthly school shootings, or none at all?

    You’re cherry picking. The future we live in now is awful in comparison to what you lived.



  • Afghanistan and Iraq both had governments the US effectively destroyed and replaced with something worse. They then occupied each of those territories for decades.

    Neither had infrastructure, roads, or active US military bases that the EU has. Neither are conveniently located near bodies of water where the US has 7 of the 10 aircraft carriers that exist on the planet. Neither were convenient to invade and dispose the government of, but the US is literally batting 1000 on doing that to whatever nation it wants no matter how remote and inhospitable its terrain.

    That’s what you should be taking away from Afghanistan. Not that the US occupied it, that they easily fucked it up for generations. Something they’re now doing domestically, and loudly announcing they want to export.