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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9079871" data-attributes="member: 7030563">Absolutely, 100% and while it is early to say on AI.  Robotics started replacing jobs in the US about 60 years ago and since then wages have skyrocketed and unemployment, while it has been up and down, has generally went down.But you can't just look at cost of living, you also need to look at standard of living.  The cost of living for a standard similar to 50 or 100 years ago is not increasing, against inflation it is actually decreasing.The biggest thing driving the housing shortage is that people do not live together in families any more.  50 years ago in Western Europe and 80 years ago in the US people typically lived with parents until they got married even if that was into their 30s or 40s, while today young unmarried people tend to live on their own.  I am not saying that is wrong, but it is the single biggest factor drving both the housing shortage and the higher cost of living in North America and Western Europe.In developing countries people still live with their parents well into adulthood and that is why those countries are not facing the same shortfalls.Expansion of the economy.  In this example specifically - more printed D&D books means more truck drivers (who make more than artists), more sales for hobby shops, more digital cloud storage space both to store imagery and computing power to develop it, more high end computers ......Start a restaurant or a farm.  Or maybe write AI algorythms.If you want to pickburgers or flip fruit or be an artists then you are acceptting that you will not be paid very much.  There is nothing wrong with that, but it is a choice.To be honest  it is the beiggest reason I don't earn a living rright now as a paid DM and writer of custom content.  WhileI can do that, and woudl have a lot more fun doing it, it does not pay nearly as much as the consultation I do for the military.My kids went to public school, both primary and college.  My Daughter graduated a year ago with a degree in statistics, advanced quickly and is now making $114k, the other is in college getting a degree in Computer Science with a minor in Cyber security.My daughter is an interesting case.  She is in the top 1% of earners who have been out of college for a year, but she moved 1000 miles away and is living by herself with no local friends or family to do that.  She is making over twice as much as she would be if she did something she would be happeir doing closer to home and I have only seen her 3 times in the last year.  Did she make the right choice?  She did not make the right choice for me, but it was her decision and she is making a lot of money because of it.100 years ago people  did not just go buy houses at all.  Only rich people did that.  People living in urban areqs were either rich, lived with their parents or lived in a poorhouse.There are planety of places with cheap housing available, including very high crime urban areas and rural areas.  People just don't want to live ther.In 5 minutes on Zillow, I found this house in Canada for $125k.  I am sure I could find one for half that if I really looked hard enough:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/33-Pine-Cres-Fort-Smith-NT-X0E-0P0/2057176301_zpid/[/URL]In places like Camden NJ there are all kinds of homes for sale under $80k, many under $50k.There are two ways to get ahead, both relatively easy and straightforward:1. Sacrifice and do something that is in high demand, whether you want to or not and whether it is dangerous or not.  This could potentially include risks to your life, and I amnot saying it is for everyone but opportunity is everywhere for people who want to seize it.2. Live at home with your parents.It will continue the ongoing trend of bringing the lower class up to the level where the middle class used to be.The middle class itself will also improve and likely continue to get smaller.</blockquote>

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