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by pixl97 1363 days ago
Eh, not really. Because you're buying the house on a loan but not buying iphones on the loan.

When you choose to get a loan you're pumping a few hundred thousand that was leveraged into existence into multiple industries that gets distributed into the economy, that gets distributed to hundreds of people working.

When you choose just to just buy an iphone, that's $1000ish your spending of your own money.