• hperrin@lemmy.world
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      If you are trying to sell something in the market, and you are not getting any interest, you have probably overvalued the item. You might be able to sell it at that price if you wait long enough, but not because that item has that value generally. In that case, you’ve probably overvalued that item, and would be able to sell it if you reached the value others perceive it to have.

      If I sell a cup of water to a man dying of thirst for $100, I shouldn’t expect that my next cup of water will sell for $100 on the market. The cup of water doesn’t have $100 worth of value, it just fulfilled someone’s needs or desires at the time enough that they were willing to pay more than its value to get it.

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        Again, the market has priced houses at the level they are now. You claim they are overvalued. You have not explained how that is determined. We’re not talking about one house like your one cup of water, we’re talking about most houses.

        So, again, if the market sets the value, who determines those houses are overvalued?

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          I didn’t claim they are overvalued, I said that may be a case of overvaluation. Do you disagree that things can be overvalued? What do you think market corrections are in that case? It’s incredibly difficult to determine if a section of the market is overvalued before a market correction, and if I had that ability, I’d probably be rich.

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            Either the market has decided that houses are unaffordable for most people or they are overvalued. Which is it?

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                No, I’m basing it on what you said.

                You said the market decides on value.

                The market has decided the value of houses is beyond most people’s ability to buy them.

                Therefore the value of houses is beyond most people’s ability to buy them based on your own reasoning.

                And then you claimed they were overvalued despite the market deciding on value.

                It can’t be both.

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                  Again, I never claimed they were overvalued. I do not know if they are overvalued. There are plenty of reasons the market can sustain things being overvalued though, like false scarcity or price fixing. If your definition of value means markets suffering from these practices are actually increasing value, then our definitions of value differ. So if that’s the case, I don’t think this argument is going to go anywhere.

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                    Right, so, again, you believe that the value of homes is beyond the means of most people’s ability to buy them because that is what the market has decided.

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