Next time people try to tell you how affordable homes were in the 1950s remind them, a modern day thermostat provides and contains more wealth than an entire 1950s home.

@freemo Which is very abstract and far removed from actual usefullness.

1950s home: very much not homeless, bit of work to heat it without overshooting

2023 thermostat but no home: homeless, will freeze to death with some abstract wealth (or possibly killed if in the US, as being homeless is a crime of sorts, i hear)

@admitsWrongIfProven The point is if you buy a home at 1950s standards it would be a "fixer upper" by todays standard.. Most could afford a home if they bought a 1950s style home in a 1950s style neighboorhood.

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@freemo And you are saying such is available?

We have problems with empty houses, just everything too expensive. I must say, if everything is brought up to a standard most cannot afford, that is malicious.

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