@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to Personal Finance@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoHomes "unaffordable" in 99% of nation for average Americanwww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square170fedilinkarrow-up1756arrow-down111cross-posted to: finance@beehaw.org
arrow-up1745arrow-down1external-linkHomes "unaffordable" in 99% of nation for average Americanwww.cbsnews.com@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to Personal Finance@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square170fedilinkcross-posted to: finance@beehaw.org
minus-square@nodsocket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoIt also feels good to smoke cigarettes and eat cheeseburgers. And there has also been a big marketing push for those. I don’t necessarily think people are and more impulsive, but they’ve been led to believe debt isn’t as harmful as it actually is.
minus-square@nodsocket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoTell that to the average person living 50 years ago.
minus-square@mke_geek@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoThey were nasty 50 years ago and they’re nasty today.
minus-square@nodsocket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoYou’re missing my point. Marketers convinced people they were good so they’d smoke more.
It also feels good to smoke cigarettes and eat cheeseburgers. And there has also been a big marketing push for those. I don’t necessarily think people are and more impulsive, but they’ve been led to believe debt isn’t as harmful as it actually is.
Cigarettes are nasty.
Tell that to the average person living 50 years ago.
They were nasty 50 years ago and they’re nasty today.
You’re missing my point. Marketers convinced people they were good so they’d smoke more.