[lbo-talk] cushy life

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> Well, that's what we're getting, and I blame Fair Issac for coming up
> with the FICO score that has literally opened wide the ability for just
> about anyone (who would normally have been shut out due to
> discrimination or by the belief that they wouldn't qualify) to buy a
> house, generate wealth, and spend it on, as has been said here before,
> plastic crap.
> 
> Ain't it awful?

It is not only awful from an aesthetic point of view, but as Jared Diamond
argues in his latest book (_Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed_) a road to possible extinction.  Do you really think that a poorly
built plywood house on an acre of land that requires enormous amount of
energy to heat and air condition, and a system of roads and gas guzzling SUV
to get to and from it is model for any part of the world other than the vast
wasteland of the US suburbia?

I am not beneath schadenfreude - I would love to see those plywood houses
collapsing like houses of cards during my life time.

Wojtek