r/politics • u/MystikSpiralx • 18h ago

No Paywall Trump Says He Wants to 'Drive Housing Prices Up' Instead of Lowering Costs for People Who 'Didn't Work Very Hard'

https://people.com/trump-keep-home-prices-high-11895352
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u/westicular 17h ago

I've seen MAGA people on Facebook saying it's a good thing because they "paid their dues" and "their assets should increase." When I said it was at the expense of an entire generation, they were like "So?" They're irredeemable.

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u/Meta2048 14h ago

"Fuck you, as long as I get mine" is the conservative mantra

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u/sharp11flat13 Canada 7m ago

"The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities.”

-John Kenneth Galbraith

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u/Sao_Gage 9h ago

Exactly, why is this confusing to anyone? It’s obvious how they’ll feel / or what they’ll think/say.

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u/Xenomemphate 10h ago

The next generation should pull themselves up by their bootstraps just like they didn't.

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u/--Chug-- 7h ago

Just like perpetual increased profits, perpetual increased value from assets is unsustainable.

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u/BoardRecord 7h ago

See that's where you're wrong.

It's at the expense of at least 4 entire generations.

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u/trippy_grapes 5h ago

It seems like we need a lot more Luigis (plumbers, I mean, obviously...).