cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
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cjet79
1d ago
Anyone follow American Football 🏈?
I don't follow but I usually watch the Superbowl, and I'm interested in knowing the season backstory for both teams. Anyone want to rant about them, or just tell me they are both boring?
cjet79
2d ago
Speaking of poetry, there is an Australian Comedian, James Donald Forbes McCann, that writes books of poetry. And then advertises that he is the best selling poet in Australia. The joke being that he has basically zero competition for his poetry books.
cjet79
6d ago
Steadily decreasing price in housing would be awesome. And I say that as a homeowner.
I own at least two large depreciating assets called "cars". When I need to buy a new one or have mine fixed, it's better if everything around the asset is less expensive.
No I'm not going to be able to sell it and make a profit. Oh well, I'm getting use out of it.
Did some googling. Cars used to be about 80% of yearly income in the 1960s. And houses were about 2x yearly income.
In 2010 cars are about 40% of yearly income and houses are 5x yearly income.
Imagine if theyd followed the same trend of halving in relative price. You'd only need a year of income to afford a house rather than 5 years.
I paid 500k for my home. Whenever we sell it I'm sure I'll make a nice profit. But Id rather skip the profit and only have paid 100k. Since 100k was our down payment I could have outright bought the house without a loan. Markets are more consistent and I'd have far more comfortable margins for living expenses and worrying about work.
I think one thing you didn't address in your original post, that heavily informed my opinion on this story is that:
Young men are animals. Cross border, cross race, cross culture, etc. As they say, testosterone is a hell of a drug. Ages 15-25 I don't trust the sexual judgement of 90% of young men. Most of those men find a productive or semi-productive outlet for their sexual desire. I think porn has helped blunt the edge of young horny men in modern society, but the blade is still there lying at the throat of society and young women. Some number of men slip through the productive cracks, and they target younger women. Even a 22 year olds loser with no job smoking weed all day can look cool to a 16 year old dumb girl.
Much of the time its the responsibility of fathers and older brothers to protect young women from these predations. The threat of getting your ass kicked is usually enough to deter the worst dirtbags. But in the absence of these protections there are occasionally going to be cases where the young women themselves take defense into their own hands.
The base story here of young 20's man hits on young teenage girls is absolutely not surprising to me. I'd guess there are stories like this in every location in the world with more than a few thousand people. A case where there are no men around to protect the young girls is not that strange, especially in a low class area where fathers might be absentee. A case where the girls take their defense into their own hands seems inevitable, humans have a basic need for security and protection. All of that would have been a total non-story.
Its just that the young 20's man is an immigrant, and the young teenage girls are native. Which sparks the culture war aspect of this all. But those additional considerations seem inevitable in any situation where there are immigrants. Similar situations sparked off black race riots in the south (young black men hitting on young teenage white girls).
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