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[-] Syntha@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

You wouldn't like it if you owned three houses and have all your savings invested in them

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago

Diversify your investments is literally the first thing anybody learns about investment.

Also, let me cry for those poor rich people with still 3 houses left, they're going to end in poverty if it's worth less!

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I could be wrong, but I think they're referring to all the middle class Chinese who were using housing as an investment vehicle (cause that was a common thing in China to my understanding).

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

I did not know that, but I don't think it matters. If you have 3 houses, even if they're worth less, you have a place to live and the possibility to house 2 other families/even more. That is wealthy in my opinion, and it doesn't really matter how much it "values" at.

[-] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It matters when all 3 of them are mortgaged and the mortgages are now more than their actual value.

(Before you blame the buyers for being dumb, realise that due to cultural context and other factors, pretty much the entire middle class is in this sort of situation).

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

You wouldn't like it if you owned three houses

Hold on, let me get out my XXS violin

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Boo hoo, I own one house and have all my savings in it. Go sell 2 of them and live in the 3rd, let someone else use them without needing a parasite middleman between them and housing.

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