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by compsciphd 2280 days ago
what do you think happened during the great depression? People before it got greedy and would buy property and mortgage it to buy the next, and so on and so forth. they were highly leveraged and lost it all because of that. The lucky ones were the ones that didn't mortgage nor collateralize the house they lived in, so they didn't become homeless.