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everyday

You mean ‘every day’, in English. #noChildLeftBehind

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I think people misunderstand what BlackRock does. It’s a proxy for other investors. Investors all around the world buy assets, produced by BlackRock and BlackRock routes that money into corresponding shares/bonds/real estate, etc.

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The word “Produced” is doing some heavy-lifting in that sentence. When I hear “produced” I think of a factory making stuff that has value or a farm producing food.

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produce /prə-doo͞s′, -dyoo͞s′, prō-/

intransitive verb To bring forth; yield. “a plant that produces pink flowers.” To create by physical or mental effort. “produce a tapestry; produce a poem.” To manufacture. “factories that produce cars and trucks.”

Sounds like the word fits just fine. The investment firm “brings forth” the investment opportunity that someone without financial advisors and millions to invest needs to get into real estate through eREITs. That opportunity wouldn’t exist without them providing the service of connecting investors with and managing funds for the investments.

I believe in the classic Homer Simpson line this covers the “services” portion of “money can be exchanged for goods and services.”

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Gotcha mortgage backed securities. Well why not? Nothing ever goes wrong with those.

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It’s a way more generic word than you might think

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True, kinda like being “all natural”.

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I create software. Its not farm work nor is it physical but I can assure you I produce deliverables.

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Whoosh

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I am no BlackRock lover, but at some point you should ask yourself: “do I need more kids?”.

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I think that question should be up to you. If you want kids have them, if you don’t then that’s cool too.

Unless you really want to start another eugenics movement telling who can and can’t reproduce.

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Bro literally didn’t say that but your comment does say a lot about how you think about others

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Bros comment is a shitty dog whistle

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Society as we know it is going to collapse unless we have more children. Queue Dingledufus, “It’s your fault for having kids!”

You can’t make up this level of bootlickery.

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Should have picked a better baby daddy that didn’t duck out.

(Apparently this makes me both an incel and a dead beat dad. Schroedinger’s children. Shitty people have kids they shouldn’t have. More shocking news at six.)

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You would definitely be a dead beat dad. You’d find a way to blame it on her too, like you are right now.

It’s her fault that he was a shitty person? Big incel energy.

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Said like a true basement dwelling incel. Man, their must be a real migration of asshats from Reddit happening now.

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No idea. Do those billionaire shitstains need all that money? We should take a few billions from them and see, and then go after your totally real not made up strawman.

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What single mother of 4 is even shopping for, let alone bidding on, an actual house?

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Really. This post doesn’t make sense. Wasn’t there a post like a few days ago saying most Americans can’t survive a sudden expense because they can’t save 1000 USD?

Then how come now they can bid for houses?

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A single mom who works two jobs who loves her kids and never stops. With gentle hands and the heart of a fighter…

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That cut is deep.

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How many single parents with four kids can afford a house?

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All of them if you take it speculators

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Quite a lot, considering child support is a thing.

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That is about 40% off gross. So unless dad is making 240k a year…

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Or mom has a respectable income herself. Or they just aren’t buying in California.

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Name one!

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Hahahaha

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You people realize a supermajority of Americans own their own home, right?

And that the very premise of the meme is that the single mother could afford to place a bid that was beaten by an investment firm and not another individual?

You’d be shocked what you can afford outside of a major city, which is one of the reasons why WFH is what everyone should be fighting for for any industry that can feasibly do it.

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All of them if it wasn’t for greedy corporations.

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Hey, 2$ is a bid.

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