Today I would NOT encourage any young person to go out and borrow a million bucks for a descent house in a descent area. Better hustle a cheap rent and be free. Save your salary in all other assets than Fiat. Gold, Silver, Stocks, Crypto, ETF's, REIT's. Leave the country after 10 years and live of...

Depends what your ideal “better position” means. If you mean purely net worth, probably the renter, if they’re allocating excess funds to bitcoin. Really just depends on where you are in life though. If you want to live nimble and move as needed or if you want a place to hunker down and build ...

So a home is an asset that has a lot of utility that other assets don’t have. If you want to grow food, learn woodworking, and have a place to sleep - you can’t find that utility on-chain. It may be difficult to find that combination renting as well, and anything you build may not be able to...