Chapo0114 [comrade/them, he/him]

I’m disengaging.

Curious, as the person who you were originally responding to deleted their comment. Is that per year or a one time expenditure?

Also, 36k is still literally 44-80% higher than your initial claim.

Data instead of anecdotes?

1975 =/= 1980. Looks like housing went up 64% in those 5 years from the data I already linked.

That’s an exaggeration. The median price for new construction in 1980 was $64,600. [1] As for existing housing stock, the median home value in 1980 was $47,200. [2] As housing prices are heavily right skewed, the prices of cheap housing is far closer to the median than the price of expensive housing. Based on a cursory overview of some charts, it seems like the bottom 20% of houses are no more that 30% cheaper than the median, putting them in the $30k range.

I’m from hexbear, people are critical of it all the time on hexbear. You just can’t criticize China and not know the people there are far better off than those in the US

As opposed to the corrupt oligarchies liberal states are… I guess you just don’t call it corruption when it’s working as intended.

This just made China’s system click in my mind. Thanks Awoo

Socialism is also an economic system.