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[–] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

30 years ago huh?

1995:
Median Household Income $34,076/yr
Median House Price $114,600

2024 (only year with finalized data):
Median Household Income $83,730/yr (+145%)
Median House Price $419,300 (+265%)

Fuck yourself with a cactus stupid CEO lady

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Maybe stop artificially inflating the housing market by buying up investment properties that are largely left unused? What do I know though. I just live in a metro area where 30% of housing is held in Blackstone trusts.

    EDIT: corrected the trust management company

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not to be that guy, but just so you don't get called a conspiracy theorist:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock_house-buying_conspiracy_theory

    It's a distinction with no real difference, but someone IRL called me out on this the other day because I got Blackrock mixed up with Blackstone....

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The company is a "luxury" real estate group, and their CEO is obviously completely divorced from reality

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    I never bought Starbucks coffee to begin with, but I am part of a massive number of Americans that believe this CEO (like most) makes too much money, is too disconnected from reality, and should be humbled by reality some time in their pathetic life.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    If she got luigi’d I would laugh and laugh

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Much like children and mines, CEOs yearn for the guillotine

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    JFC, how many times is Gen X going to be overlooked? Just who was really entering the workforce and struggling to pay for student loans, apartments or houses in 1995? Most boomers probably bought their first house 15-20 years prior to that.

    Hint: it was not the fucking boomers. FFS.

    Gen X is apparently condemned to be the middle child between boomers and Gen Y/Z.

    Also, and BTW, Gen X was also given that utterly useless advice about coffee, too. It's been at least 30 years of idiots saying things like that. Gag me with a spoon and as if and like totally bogus....

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Millennials still waiting to buy houses too. Get in line.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Keep on dreaming and you’ll be living it. Cut the Starbucks tho.

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