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hunterrrrrr
2y ago
If I can take the profit on one and roll it into buying down the disposable income needed to afford a loan on another - which I can do in a falling interest rate environment - there should be not only a point of equilibrium for my relative
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hunterrrrrr
2y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response I’ll try to respond soon
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hunterrrrrr
2y ago
apologies if this comes off as a nitpick but when I read this > I don't necessarily agree that the bar is lower because you're paid less And then this > I naively still want my bike to work properly It reads like your conclu
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hunterrrrrr
2y ago
> 1. You often can't get a mortgage on the same terms so you often can't find equality between selling a home and buying a home. When interest rates fall the value of the asset goes up and the cost of borrowing the same amount
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hunterrrrrr
2y ago
> If you sell the house, you’re short again Unless we aren’t short again. 10% is the median year over year growth. What if it was 20%? Is that more realistic than her doubling her income in the same time period? I think that we could onl
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hunterrrrrr
2y ago
Right, I am making the joke of taking it literally
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hunterrrrrr
2y ago
> but don't necessarily set that bar for yourself. When someone is grotesquely underpaid the bar is pretty low. Take median salary for example. In some places merely buying a home and having it appreciate over the course of one sing
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hunterrrrrr
2y ago
Sometimes you just have to stand on business.
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hunterrrrrr
2y ago
> and I have never placed the security of a job above the value of home Yeah I mean this tracks because we can look at data to prove that it’s true. The value of a single family home in California has increased 10%-11% year over year. Is
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hunterrrrrr
2y ago
Completely agree. And it’s just one more creepy weird thing that companies allow to be normalized. If you refuse to work in these conditions, you’re “burnt out” or you’re “a bad fit” or whatever other bizarre messaging folks want to astrotu
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hunterrrrrr
2y ago
lol it’s funny how many of these class warfare topics popped up over the last 2 hr. Anyway, if anyone thinks burnout is real maybe take a look at Nvidia. Paying people more money is a pretty straightforward way to retain them. But that’s no