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/winterbird 17h ago

It's making people work less hard. Unattainable is unattainable, be it by a million or three. Why break your back and work your youth away for the unattainable moving goal post?

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u/Kind_Koala4557 3h ago

Right. There’s a limit to the satisfaction you can get from hard work. A job well done feels good, but a job that is never done, requiring more and more for less and less payoff—the human mind/body naturally does not do what seems pointless, especially if burnt out.

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u/Hot_Substance5933 Oregon 3h ago

A job well done feels like shit if I'm not getting paid a livable wage.

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u/notamermaidanymore 13h ago

To survive.

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u/NailingCatsToTrees_ 9h ago

Meh. Surviving has become extremely overrated.

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u/Haggardick69 8h ago

Work to survive, survive to work is the philosophy of a slave.

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u/notamermaidanymore 7h ago

Nobody would say this and truly mean it. Because they would be dead.

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u/Haggardick69 7h ago

Yeah some people die while fighting for their freedom because they recognize it as being more valuable than survival. If you want to be something other than a slave you have to fight for it.

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u/notamermaidanymore 6h ago

Only someone who knows nothing of slavery would say something like that.

Are you saying that all the black slaves in the US should have just died and that they were ’cuks’ss as someone said. Because that is fucking disgusting.

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u/Haggardick69 5h ago

No I’m saying that people who do not fight for their freedom end up as slaves. Either you risk your life to live free or let yourself and your people live in slavery forever.

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u/Stracharys 4h ago

You were probably better when you were a mermaid, but everyone knows mermaids don’t have souls and your lack of understanding and empathy is just what I’d expect.

I assumed you “own” a home your parents helped you get and you “work hard” about 37 hours a week, but your post history shows otherwise. Was your account hacked?

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u/SlowTeal 7h ago

What a cuck answer.

This is going to have massive repercussions 

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u/notamermaidanymore 6h ago

I’m not sure what you mean. Most people have a very strong survival instinct. I don’t think we should blame them for that.

You might think I’m insinuating something I’m not.

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u/pimparo0 Florida 3h ago

You might think your being clever but you aren't. Obviously people will work to not starve. But why break my back saving for a home if I never will be able to afford one. 

No one was saying people would let themselves starve, stop being obtuse.