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  • While yes your money is being eaten by inflation when sitting in the bank, if you’re seriously considering purchasing a house that is the correct place to put your money while continuing to build a deposit but you have to commit to an actual plan.

    IMO I don’t think you are psychologically prepared to invest (which is probably the biggest factor). Ironically buying a house is also investing but you’ve somehow created a divide in your mind on those two things which makes me think your risk tolerance is low (that’s ok).

    Investing is kind of like gambling but the odds of winning go up every year you stay invested, this is wholly not like gambling.

    In fact, no one that has invested long term (20+ years) in a broad based low cost index fund has lost money. The catch is you have to weather storms, GFC’s, life’s incidental hiccups and never withdraw the money even if its value has decreased 50% from yesterday.














  • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.mltoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comPiñata economics
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    1 month ago

    Yes, I agree that’s how trickle down economics works in real life but I looked at this meme and was like ‘it don’t make sense’.

    If the caption was something like ‘how aspirational capitalists think trickle down economics works’ and showed a picture of the imagined way trickle down economics works and the second image was the one in this meme with the caption ‘how trickle down economics actually works’ it would make more sense.


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    1 month ago

    The definition of trickle-down economics is incongruent with the image that’s being displayed. If the second image shows that it’s a Piñata being hit (matching the definition of piñata economics) the first image should show trickle down economics as it ‘should’ work, which is that the top glass spills over to the next glass and so on.

    Yes I’m autistic, how did you know?