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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Missing the other big factor:

    There’s a large quantity of influencers profiting off of doomsaying and convincing millennial they can’t afford homes with bad math and bogus statistics. They churn out clickbait content with unfounded claims, purposefully designed to rile up viewers and drive engagement.

    This of course applies to many topics, housing affordability just being one, that turns out drive big engagement by spreading disinformation.

    It’s actively profitable to lie on the internet nowadays, so lots of my fellow millennials have an extremely soured and warped perspective of reality, because if you keep getting told lies by enough different random strangers on the internet on a topic you aren’t familiar with, you’ll start to believe it.

    Spreading disinformation, especially about serious topics like economics, medicine, politics, religion, etc, needs to be cracked down on more. Posing as a professional online and spreading damaging info on purpose should result in jail time imo.


  • Culprit?

    You say it like its a bad thing.

    We dont need brick and mortar storefronts for most industries now, only a small handful still need people to go in person.

    All of these stores and parking lots could become affordable housing instead, and the companies can move to warehouse+distribution models which work infinitely better, are better for business, better for consumers, and better for the environment.

    1 truck delivering 20 deliveries uses a fraction of the gas as 20 individual people driving to the store to pick up their item.

    Dozens of locations can amalgamate into a single warehouse, using a fraction of the footprint and centralizing all their storage, production, distribution, and management.

    Required workers to get the product into a persons hand reduce substantially, which means overhead costs go down, which means better profits for the company and better ability to compete on the market.

    And consumers have the luxury of items being delivered right to their doorstep.

    The only industries that still actually need brick and mortar shops really are:

    1. Restaurants, for obvious reasons

    2. Clothing/shoe/etc stores, since it’s extremely difficult to gauge if clothing will be a good fit for you over the internet so you still want to be able to try clothing on in person before purchasing.

    3. Any other “You really wanna try and verify it is a good fit before purchasing” style industries, like mattresses.

    4. A small quantity of locations specifically targeting emergency needs, that typically are open 24/7. Convenience stores, late night pharmacies, etc. Anything in the realm of “Its 1 am and I need this right now” is worth having a brick and mortar shop for.

    Pretty much everything else is just strictly better to just order it online.