notfbi
22d ago
What about real interest rates back then? Low value mortgage was deflated away compared to 70s/80s nominal income growth of like 15% each year. Sacrifice for a few years, yes, then debt payment becomes increasingly trivial compared to rising income, which isn't true now.
notfbi
2mo ago
I didn't really like season 3 too much and gave up on season 4, but season 5 was good enough.
I agree with a lot of what sarker said above, but the main variation with the wife in this one was, I think, an acceptable single degree of freedom (and a funny variation given how they've written the wife in Movie/S1/S2). Unlike True Detective Night Country, Fargo S5 worked pretty well just because they did so many of the little things well, even if a few things including sarker's points were grating. It's also not so jarring having the other characters, men, being incompetent since the show was always based on mostly everybody being incompetent for where they've found themselves. There's one episode later on that's almost a total write-off, but it's worth checking out.
notfbi
1yr ago
You seem to be severely underestimating the extensive use of customary land tenure throughout the world today as well as the increasingly conscientious approaches governments have taken when introducing land titling and property right acknowledgements for those lands. There is not one way to implement these changes, and yet you take some of the worst examples from history and seem to say this is just how it need go.
notfbi
1yr ago
My understanding was Palestine didn't have a property system analogous to western country systems. That the land owners were more like (charitably) feudal administrators over their land, and when they sold that land there was some expectation that the tenants had a remaining claim on the land. So it's not like Chinese immigrants coming in and making consensual trades for single houses, but more like (charitably) they gave the Mayor a few million dollars to overtake mayoral duties, and then they referred a la Hitchhiker's Guide to Property Rights to some Alpha Centauri law that administration of the city means full rights to all houses within and out you must go.
Just a side-note, homeownership rates aren't very meaningful for affordability. If the government introduces a new 100% tax on all new cars (it goes towards kicking puppies and parking studies), the calculation to decide between leasing (at 2x the rate) vs buying with a loan (at 2x the price) is essentially the same for car-users as before, the 2s cancel. That does not tell you anything about the harm/fairness/cost of that tax.
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