because we grow up on it. it’s a comfort food.

like mcdonalds and all that other super process crap.

amen

my dog is racist.

putting yourself out there is how you get less ignorant.

you can rent and have a garden and rent is cheaper than a mortgage in a comparable area.

when people buy they often have to move further out to a cheaper area to get a mortgage

my mortgage is more than my rent and isn’t as nearly in as nice of a place and convent of a location. on top of that and having to do home reapir (not renovation) i have less disposible income than I did a few years ago.

it’s trade offs. i miss being in a more social area and having more disposible income, and somtimes i regret buying.

agreed.

vast majority of folks in the USA see renting as this repulsive awful stupid thing that nobody would ever do if they weren’t poor.

it’s nuts. renting makes a lot more sense for a lot of situations. and vast majority don’t buy until they are married and having families anyway.

because in usa culture homeownership grants you higher social status and it’s seen as an investment.

renting = lower status, second class citizen, poor

owning = high status, first class citizen, ‘successful’

that’s it.

don’t know where you live, but where i live people love whining about how they can’t afford rent while they go on $5000 international vacations every year.

one of my ex-friends who is a trans anarchist, just did this. they work part time in a bike shop, and yet they can afford a two week long tour of Taiwan. But they will talk your ear off about how landlords are evil and the revolution is coming because they can’t afford their rent in one of the nicest areas in my city. irony.

yeah, but that’s not how people work.

Then you’d be wrong. Vast majority of people have financial aid/loans. 85%, in fact.

My office has quite a few fresh grads who own their own places.

Their parents bought it for them for a graduation present.

no, because there is no such thing as universal happiness.

everyone’s happiness is different, and often conflicting.

for example, my father’s happiness would have been me playing football. I hated sports. hence, he hated me until he died for ‘hurting him’.

no, you can google it

or she can just shove a knife in your neck while you are asleep.

what good is empathy when there is moral outrage and shaming to indulge in?

we all know men aren’t people. only women are people.

this assumes you don’t wash your dick everytime you go to the bathroom