Paying for your home in potatoes instead of euros turns out to mean it got cheaper
We discuss in the forum whether housing has gone up in price or whether it's the euro losing value. Data, gold, potatoes and the harsh economic reality.
English · Original discussion in Spanish · Published
The trap of measuring housing in potatoes and gold
Has the price of housing really gone up, or has the euro simply turned into wet paper? The debate in the Economics subforum starts from a simple premise: if we calculate the value of a flat in basic goods like potatoes, the perception of inflation changes radically. It's not that property is more expensive, it's that the purchasing power of your salary has sunk into the infernal depths.
Inflation: the invisible tax nobody wants to see
The central thesis of the thread is that the housing market is the mirror that best reflects monetary devaluation. While users argue over whether the price of potatoes is 0.39 or 1 euro per kilo, the bubble-savvy consensus points out that measuring assets in fiat currency is a rookie mistake. Inflation, that tax that never shows up on your payslip, is the real culprit behind nominal prices skyrocketing, while the real value of work depreciates by leaps and bounds.
Gold, Bitcoin or bricks to protect yourself?
The analysis gets more technical once the potato example is dropped and the square metre is measured in ounces of gold or Bitcoin. The data shared in the thread are damning: housing has undergone a massive liquidation against safe-haven assets over the last decade. Some forum members insist the system is rigged and designed for speculative selling, leaving the average citizen trapped in a race where work is no longer an asset, but a ballast losing value every day.
Are we facing an imminent correction, or is this the new normal of a manipulated economy? The debate remains stuck on the eternal question: is it the market that's failing, or has the ECB's printing press definitively broken the price thermometer?
Related debates in the forum
Has the price of housing really gone up, or has the euro simply turned into wet paper? The debate in the Economics subforum starts from a simple premise: if we calculate the value of a flat in basic goods like potatoes, the perception of inflation changes radically. It's not that property is more expensive, it's that the purchasing power of your salary has sunk into the infernal depths.
Inflation: the invisible tax nobody wants to see
The central thesis of the thread is that the housing market is the mirror that best reflects monetary devaluation. While users argue over whether the price of potatoes is 0.39 or 1 euro per kilo, the bubble-savvy consensus points out that measuring assets in fiat currency is a rookie mistake. Inflation, that tax that never shows up on your payslip, is the real culprit behind nominal prices skyrocketing, while the real value of work depreciates by leaps and bounds.
Gold, Bitcoin or bricks to protect yourself?
The analysis gets more technical once the potato example is dropped and the square metre is measured in ounces of gold or Bitcoin. The data shared in the thread are damning: housing has undergone a massive liquidation against safe-haven assets over the last decade. Some forum members insist the system is rigged and designed for speculative selling, leaving the average citizen trapped in a race where work is no longer an asset, but a ballast losing value every day.
Are we facing an imminent correction, or is this the new normal of a manipulated economy? The debate remains stuck on the eternal question: is it the market that's failing, or has the ECB's printing press definitively broken the price thermometer?
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