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| ▲ | andai 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Damn, never thought about it like that. That seems a lot more practical and relevant than the Big Mac Index. | | |
| ▲ | markus_zhang 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah I think housing is the real index. CPI doesn’t make sense for individuals unless you build your own index. | | |
| ▲ | dasil003 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It'll never happen because it shines a light on uncomfortable facts that would risk far too much cognitive dissonance across the political spectrum. Please keep the discourse to identity politics, culture wars, the Epstein files, and large-scale, unprovoked acts of international warfare; those will all be much easier for us to talk about as a nation than what we should do about housing prices. | |
| ▲ | lotsofpulp 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Housing (which is actually land in the school district you want to be in) Healthcare Education (not just for learning, but for signaling). Everything else is inconsequential in my budget. |
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| ▲ | tunesmith 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not even close, not when all things are considered. $50/hour is 100k/year, which is still considered a decent salary. 24k/year in 2000-2002 was definitely not considered a decent salary. $12/hour for sw engineers was evil. I hung up on that recruiter and cursed for a while, cold-called my way to a transitional $20/hr job, and then finally landed somewhere at $55/hr which is when things started to feel normal again. $55/hr back then is not the same as $230/hr now. | | |
| ▲ | markus_zhang 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think when you go up from 55 to 230 it is different from 12 to 50. But yeah, somehow I thought that was 20, not 12... |
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