Not to mention the typology for Christ in the OT, such as Isaac, Joseph, Jacob, etc.
We don't need centralized moderation to suppress people or speech that is morally atrocious. Societies are always self-correcting; the bad actors are ostracized when people realize they are bad, and thus there is a high cost to moral depravity in a healthy society.
Perhaps we've grown unused to that process due to the central control of social media.
There is value to a home and land beyond just the amount of money it can be exchanged for.
An example:
My parents married in 1995. They were in their mid-20s. My dad was the primary breadwinner, and my mom worked part-time until they had kids. Within 3 years of getting married, they were able to buy a modest, 1500 square foot home in a quiet suburb of San Diego for around $150,000.
My wife and I got married in 2021. I'm the primary breadwinner, and my wife works part-time. By raw numbers, our income is similar to my parents' at the same stage of their lives. However, compared to when my parents got married, the dollar has lost half it's value due to inflation, and the price of a comparable home has doubled. Homes in the neighborhood my parents first bought in often run north of $1,000,000 today.
Buying that starter home is possible for us, but it requires a tighter budget than it did for our parents to save enough for the down payment. And we are hard-pressed to find comparable, modest-sized starter homes in our city. The current suburbs are full of boxy, two-story monstrosities that start at $450,000.
Many of the people I know today in the same situation are rather despairing over the barrier to entry for home ownership. The situation just sucks all around.
That makes sense.
Though I'm not sure the subdivision homes being built are artificially price-hiked, entirely. They're just built as homes for families with 2 or 3 kids, 2 cars, and a dog. A family in their 20s just starting out is straight outta luck, because no one is building modest-sized homes for them. If they were, those homes would probably be at least somewhat more affordable than what is on the current market.
I'm not sure that answers why the housing developers aren't building starter homes.
New developments are full of boxy, 2-story cookie-cutter homes that put as much interior square footage on a lot as possible without regard for anything else. Because they're so big, they're all priced well above what the first-time home buyer can afford.
The single-story, modest homes that my generation's parents bought as their first are now in desirable suburbs and cost obscene amounts of money. Rich folks just buy those and tear them down to build McMansions in their place.
Can you give an example of what you mean in general by "bungalow". A specific image comes to mind but I don't think it's what you're talking about.
Then it'a not generational
No one is building starter homes any more.
I'm surprised I don't see this discussed more often. My generation despairs of the American dream of home ownership, and the lack of real starter homes is a significant piece of that puzzle.
One of my life dreams is to have a house custom-built for my family. A good, sturdy, thoughtful home that my children can live in for generations.
True.
I just wonder what the effect the scattering of the American family and the disappearance of generational homes has on our society.
The advantage and disadvantage of Bitcoin, as far as I can tell, is that it is a purely digital asset.
It's digital-native, so it's great for an online economy, and fraud-resistant due to cryptography and blockchain technology.
However, it has no manifestation in the world of physical things. It doesn't have value in the same way as land that you cultivate, or a home that you build, or goods that you can use.
I've known families who helped their kids financially to get that first home. I want to be able to do that for my kids someday.
Most people sell off their real estate before they can pass it on to their kids. Or by the time parents pass away and kids can inherit, the kids are settled in various parts of the country and aren't interested, so they just sell the real estate.
*youth pastor voice*
"You know who else was a HODLer?"
"Jesus."
"He HODLed your souls to save you from the shitcoins and rugging of the devil."
Any Christian refugees from #reddit?
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Awesome. I'll have to remember that.
I'm using Alby now, but CashApp would be an easy recommendation for some people who want to get in on Nostr.
Normies might be more comfortable adopting value-for-value if they could use familiar apps and currency.
I seem to recall hearing that zaps are just a wrapper around a digital transaction, so there's no reason they have to be sats, per se. I could be wrong, so I'll check the documentation on that.