Yes, I’d say most of them feel that way, myself included.
However, I still have this general aesthetic preference to having fewer ongoing costs, for instance when I played System Shock 2, I always invested heavily in energy weapons, even though they’re not very good, because their ammunition is cheaper/free than ballistic weapons, using them just felt better. If this is common with longtermists, I’d expect it to have lead some people to investigate the question pretty thoroughly and they’d have some things to say about it.
Owning a house doesn’t give you fewer ongoing costs. It tends to give you less costs overall, but that’s heavily contingent on rental and mortgage rates. And it’s actually more administrative hassle, because you have to spend money on rates (local property taxes), repairs, and so on. The main thing owning a house gives you is it gives you is stability in terms of predicting future price changes.
Yes, I’d say most of them feel that way, myself included.
However, I still have this general aesthetic preference to having fewer ongoing costs, for instance when I played System Shock 2, I always invested heavily in energy weapons, even though they’re not very good, because their ammunition is cheaper/free than ballistic weapons, using them just felt better. If this is common with longtermists, I’d expect it to have lead some people to investigate the question pretty thoroughly and they’d have some things to say about it.
Owning a house doesn’t give you fewer ongoing costs. It tends to give you less costs overall, but that’s heavily contingent on rental and mortgage rates. And it’s actually more administrative hassle, because you have to spend money on rates (local property taxes), repairs, and so on. The main thing owning a house gives you is it gives you is stability in terms of predicting future price changes.