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It’s kind of perfect that Lisa Carver is writing for Vice.
March 2012
February 2012
“The decline in young home owners is a puzzling trend. Interest rates have steadily declined over the last 30 years. Mortgage lending has loosened. Women have ascended in the workplace and supplemented their spouse’s earnings. How in the face of all of these positive developments did home ownership among the young keep falling?”
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Derek Thompson, “The End of Ownership: Why Aren’t Young People Buying More Houses?” (via theatlantic)
Let’s see.. Because we’ve lived through like three real estate bubbles, and we know that the value of houses doesn’t go up forever. We also know that the industry is rigged, and filled with predatory creeps. Also renting is awesome. You don’t have to fix stuff. You can leave with you want - which is by no means certain when owning when markets are volatile. AND renting is cheaper in many urban areas, which we love, where the ownership market is decoupled from the rental market. ESPECIALLY in magnet cities like New York which attract international wealth.
I’ve never owned a house and it’s awesome. AND THANK GOD.
Edit: OH. AND. Ever try buying a house when you don’t have a full time “normal” job? Ever try buying a house as a freelancer? As a founder? Good freakin’ luck.
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“Concretely, think about this the next time you need a kid to build your new iPhone app, and can’t find one, because they are all working at tech startups. Why wouldn’t they? If they choose the right one, they can make a payout ten times what they’d ever make building your app freelance. And if they choose the wrong one, they’ll still make just as much as you’d pay them. I see this all the time. And it’s directly tied to the tech industry’s inexplicable, misplaced fetish for product companies over service companies.”
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Okay, perhaps not my finest work. I was really tired. It was 4 AM. I had just gotten home from a long flight. Writing a column every week is hard! I mean, not like, pay-me-six-figures-a-year-to-just-write-a-column-hard, more like, try-to-remember-to-hop-on-the-scale-every-day hard.
I have noticed it’s way easier to write it every week when the week is a writing week. When you’re working on some larger thing, like a book, or a lot of smaller things, like a blog, it’s sort of a welcome distraction to write about something one day a week. When you’re hanging out with friends on a vacation, it is a lot harder.
Insights!
- Emma (upon finishing the daily show with Neil deGrasse Tyson): You're gonna buy that book, right?
- Me: Yep, I'm on it. Oh man, it's like eleven bucks.
- Emma: So? I thought that was cheap to you.
- Me: I'm unemployed now. I'm trying to save money.
- Emma: You bought two copies of How to Be Black. That was $10.
- Me: That was $10, not $11.69. And Baratunde is a friend.
- Emma: Neil deGrasse Tyson is a friend to all humanity.
“Unlike the Potter books, the ebook version will be available simultaneously with print”
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JK Rowling announces new novel - for adults | Books | guardian.co.uk
THANK YOU. Now, can it be on the Kindle, too, please? Or is that too much to ask?
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