This 28-year-old pays $62 a month to live in a dumpster he built for $5,000—take a look inside

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This 28-year-old pays $62 a month to live in a dumpster he built for $5,000—take a look inside - Lemmy.World

Micro-houses are cool. The minimal cost and maintenance is really appealing. Having to do it because everything else is unaffordable is not.
It’s even worse now that boutique builders are making tiny homes with aged cheddar wood and once in a century nails and crap. Houses in general should have never been made financial investments. It’s shelter.
Serious question: What ought to be a financial investment? Nothing? Points that are otherwise worthless?

Anything that is meant to be consumed should not be an investment, anything that in an ideal society should be cheaper to purchase for the betterment of that society, should not be an investment.

Companies that produce those things, ideally better or more efficient every year for various reasons, those should be investments.

We should invest in banana farmers, not bananas. Likewise we should invest in construction companies, not houses.