Simple living is now expensive
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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How much longer until the revolution? If done correctly, housing will free up one way or the other.
There is a large group of people who just believe people are beneth them and dont deserve basic things like living alone
A full-time job should, at the very least, afford someone the dignity of a space of his or her own, even if it’s a studio or efficiency apartment. If a full-time job still requires subsistence living, then the fault lies in the gig, not the worker.
“Luxury of living alone” sounds like something a sociopath would say, as it implies that living alone is a luxury. Their tone gives off the vibe of “all the plebeians should be lucky they get paid, we can pay you less if we want to.”
Solo dolo life ain’t what it used to be
This is the same person who would complain that no one wants to work anymore.
Capitalists have devalued labor and put an emphasis on capital for years and years, so this internalized attitude is no surprise.
What does surprise me is how many people will ride out for capitalism, especially when income inequality is as wide as it is currently.
Funny those same cashiers were considered “essential “ workers during the Pandemic. Now they’re disposable again smh
bro is from new zealand yet he has wall street in the background of his profile picture. He drank the entire pitcher of kool-aid
He’s right tho, living alone is a luxury. Most countries dont have the weird cultural requirement that when you turn 18 you need your own place. Either you should stay at home with your parents or get roommates
Living alone is a luxury tho. Most other countries and eras have people living in multi-generational households.
People should be able to afford healthcare, food, public transport, and shelter but Americans really be stuck on that postwar white picket fence shit.
This country is cooked
Living alone and a livable wage are not the same thing though
On this same idea – it’s often assumed that if I want to live alone, I want to be in a whole house or a large space. I just want a little studio apartment which is unaffordable on one income in some places.
Corporations love this bootlicker lol
Without class solidarity…we are toast. Save ya Bread, find your community and hope your city has safety guards, the next 4 years will be dark.
There is no time in history when a single low-skill worker has been able to afford to live alone.
What if OP had said it this way- Some of the difficulties of paying bills and rent can be mitigated by finding a roommate.
Not as ragebait-y, I know, but it is practical advice.
I don’t want a mansion I would happily settle for an efficiency apartment if you will just pay me enough to afford it. Ffs
The US is a house of cards……..
They really believe that people earning minimum wage should live in boarding houses,20 to a room and be marched into work like some authoritarian dystopia.
That should be russian trolls tactic to instigate a civil unrest lmao
Every person has their quirks, and one of my mother’s quirks was a fascination with manufactured housing. Our family moved into a mobile home way back in the 70s, when I was in third grade, and looking back the only reason I can think of that we did so was because my mom had a fascination with them.
Most of our neighbors were not as financially well off as we were. The lady next door, for instance, worked as a cashier at the local grocery store (not a chain of any kind, just an independently-owned-and-operated grocery store) and was raising three boys. The oldest was right around 16 when we moved in and was apparently also contributing to the household income, but, she was basically a single mom raising three kids doing a job that this ass clown doesn’t think should allow a person to survive on their own.
There’s so much disrespect shown to low-end workers, as if the low pay isn’t bad enough. Many of them also sacrifice their social lives and family time just to be there doing what they do, and it’s disgusting to see them talked about in such a manner.
Every time I see one of those “I live in a closet in NYC” videos I think about how that person doesn’t get to hang out with friends or have any kind of family living like that. The housing situation is fucked all around.
Everyone know this already but, there is enough money in the world to make sure everyone has their basic needs met, but all this money is concentrated at the top. Then you have bootlickers who will complain that if people have their basic needs met they’ll just become freeloaders (which is and isn’t true). Billionaires need to have their taxes trickled down, just like how us proletariat’s get taxed up the ass.
There used to be things called flop houses where the very bottom rungs of society could still at least have a door that locks so they didn’t have to carry their every possession with them 24/7 in a shopping cart and they had a place to sleep and not worry about being set on fire by a lunatic.
We should eat Michael.
My mom supported herself and me working as a cashier at a grocery store my whole childhood.
It’s always the guys who
* had a childhood in a single neighbourhood full of extracurricular activities and vacations
* had mommy and daddy pay for their tuition while they hide away in their childhood home
* had a job lined up for them through ~~nepotism~~ nEtWoRkInG the second they graduate
* get paid more than their peers because they’re a nepobaby
* get the childhood home dropped into their lap sometime in their 30’s
That hold these asinine views. The whole world was handed to them.
See what he did on the sly? He translated “live **alone**” to just “livable wage” like we wouldn’t notice. Humans have bundled together to live for all 2 million years of existence, including the vaunted post-WWII period Redditors love. Families of 10 lived in 2 rooms.
I raised two kids as a single mom in the 80s as a cashier. In 1983-84, my rent for a two bedroom apartment in South Lake Tahoe was $300 a month.
Greed makes a living wage impossible.
My dad said minimum wage was too high and that in 1969 he was sweeping floors for $4/hour and could pay his rent. I pulled up an inflation calculator and showed him he was making the equivalent of $37/hour in 2024. We are all getting hosed.
It’s the ‘living alone’ part that’s the luxury, as in no roommates and no living with family. Being able to live alone has never been a basic living standard
For a majority of human history, a vast, vast majority of people have not lived alone. So, it does seem like a luxury if there is this thing relatively unique to our society(western capitalist) that very few could even consider as an option in other societies.
As long as overall real GDP per capita has gone up or remained the same it’s reasonable to expect a similar or better standard of living to the generations that came before.
[Here is Real GDP Per Capita for the USA](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA)
They’ve turned human rights into more like general guidelines.
The CIA is doing laps around us
Business owners:
Man people like this should be thrown into a random country in a language they speak and given a challenge: survive.
See how long he keeps that shitty opinion
I’ve heard of companies in their orientation saying to make friends with your co-workers so you can be roommates together.
You were told you don’t deserve it so you don’t
If someone said this in my presence, I would shmack them in the mouth.
Yet when there was a pandemic who was still working?
The hegemony is hegemoning
Whoever Michael fowlie is better get used to being alone with that haircut