• agent_nycto@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    How have we screwed up as a society, much less species, when shelter is seen as a financial investment rather than what it is, a thing we literally need to survive?

    • Asetru@feddit.org
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      8 hours ago

      Well, as houses don’t magically appear out of thin air, I guess it has been like this since we started building permanent shelter.

      • bollybing@lemmynsfw.com
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        7 hours ago

        Until relatively recently, it wasn’t that uncommon to just go and find some unused land and build a house on it. No intergenerational wealth required.