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Kids and politics
onyx6:
yeah! forget old people. stealing our cash and not taking care of themselves
Visage:
--- Quote from: Bisjac on October 25, 2009, 01:26:13 AM ---didn't that generation brainwash themselves and my parents into thinking a good investment is loving home ownership? one out of millions of investments. and the one that pays off less then any other.
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Home ownership is one of the best investments possible, as the only other option is renting, in which you pay for nothing.
My parents' house is worth 5x what they paid for it, which is a lot of profit for a 15 year investment if they sell it.
Buying a fancy car is definitely the worst investment possible.
Bisjac:
the "American dream" is a process (pretty much applies to anywhere lol)
your grand parents teach your parents that they are supposed to:
1 get married
2 go into dept buying a home
3 make children
4 teach your children to take care of you when your old
now this is where things went wrong 2 generations ago
4a my grandparents generation broke the cycle and stopped passing on the home to thier children, making it impossible to take care of them if they are supossed to buy a home from scratch instead of taking the family home (while grandparents live in)
4b college plans had been added to a once none existing part of this cycle
and they ruin the traditional family and ruined the necessary dept needed.
now,
our parents and grandparents cojntinue to attempt to make us follow the cycle. the cyckle THEY broke and THEY made impossible to live in. yet they expect us to because they grew up brainwashed that way.
the only way to truly succeed in life now. is:
1 dont get married
2 dont make children
3 college
4 personal dept and personal responsibility for retirement.
because clearly the home owning family people are sooooooo happy. i haven't seen one succeed since the 40s. they all die broke and unhappy. coincidence?
home owning is fine if you MUST have a family. but if its your only egg in your only basket, you failed at life. like everyone does when they home own. they are tricked into thinking it actually payts off in the end. when all it really does is stays caught up with itself only.
Ronin:
Better yet why don't you ask the families that agreed to taking out horrid loans. Housing means nothing if you can't support the means to keep it. Even if it's the environment/economy around you that changes, forcing you to change.
Also, kids are dumb.
Ronin:
I hit another button! OH GOD