For outsiders, it’s difficult to explain #AUStriches obsession with the real estate market.
But this article detailing the murder & suicide of a doctor who killed her 8-year old daughter might help elucidate.
Half the article is about the AirBnB property she had rented, and then they go on to discuss the renovations she was doing at her own home..
The country is sick; completely riddled by fiat.
lol wtf
I agree wholeheartedly we’re obsessed with property, but that wild a tonal shift could only be the work of an LLM
No, that’s a News Corp journalist pushing the interests of the owners of REA Group, Australia’s biggest property listings platform which had revenues of $1.5 Billion Dollarydoos in FY2024, in which News Corp have a 61.4% ownership stake.
They grabbed content from the Stayz listing of the property where the murder suicide happened and reproduced it directly in the article, no LLM needed.
They will literally make headlines about overseas wars and what it means for Aussie propadee prices.
It’s a sickness.
Sad.
Putrid journalism.
Article working hard for that commission
So true. All people crap on about here is their wanky home, next property investment or renovation. It governs their entire life.
Renos to get that negative gearing
Australia had a ripe opportunity to become a tech sector leader and instead ignored it in favour of real estate and mining
Now we’re fucked
Australia used to have genuinely smart and entrepreneurial people, lots of problem solvers in old-world Australia.
But Gov setup completely the wrong economy to harness that ethos and yep, now it’s fukt.
Absolutely no-one has a plan how to arrest this trend:
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This is an ad isn’t it
Practically, yes, but unintentionally,
It’s beyond native advertising, it’s like these people are controlled by fiat brainrot and are so consumed by it that it’s their lens for the entire world - even looking at murder-suicides.
If I’m cynical, it appears overt. Alternatively, I could see some lazy or overworked writer use AI to pull info about the who what where when and if most of the data found online is advertisements about the house, so be it as long as the word count is met— bleak.
But yeah if this is a common cultural phenomenon seen other places, even more bleak.
Australia is a joke
