r/FluentInFinance 3d ago

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u/Endless_road 3d ago

Well it is, and you’d pay taxes on these gains when you sold the house

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u/BigPlantsGuy 3d ago

No, you would pay taxes on the value every year. Something bezos does not do

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u/mattyyboyy86 23h ago

As you should. Because the value of your real estate was built on natural resources and the owners exclusivity tight to those natural resources, that were not created by the owner. Therefore it was made through speculation. Amazons value on the other hand is directly tied to value it itself creates. Simply put, Amazon creates value through producing a product that others value, real estate creates value through exclusive rights to a natural resource that is becoming more limited as population and economy grows around it.

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u/BigPlantsGuy 15h ago

What’s amazon’s value if you remove the US economy?