What other assets? Are you under the impression that Bitcoin maximalists are calling housing a scam? Okay maybe a little bit, it is propped up by debt, but if you can get in at the tail end of a debt callapse its not so bad. Are we calling stocks scams? Well there are a lot of zombie companies that are propped up entirely by government subsidies and companies that are not profitable but are propped up by investor speculation (Amazon), but overall a basic S&P 500 stock portfolio over a 10 year period tends to beat inflation at the very least.