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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Shit. I'm not even looking for a two bedroom. I want a studio for less than $1400.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They don't talk about one bedrooms in these statistics because it's all based on assuming you're going to fuck and make babies for God Economy.

[–] any_memes_necessary@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the statistic for one bedrooms is almost as bad. In 93% of US counties, you can't afford a one bedroom on a minimum wage salary

Oh, I'm aware, it just always sticks in my craw as a person without kids how the subject is represented.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

May the capitalists never gain access to the multiverse.

If anyone can find a way to hoard and separate infinite resources from infinite people, it's them.

Honestly that's why I'm rooting against successful space colonization. The rest of the universe doesn't need our greed disease to spread.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

A violent revolution is unthinkable until the hour it is inevitable.

[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you misspelled studio apartment without any flat mates...

[–] any_memes_necessary@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that's just the statistic, but yeah. Can't afford that either. But people will tell you to "just move somewhere affordable" when the point is there isn't a single place in the US where you can afford a two-bed apartment on minimum wage – which should be a wage you can live on

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes someplace affordable is what was called a Hoover house about a century ago, that is a cardboard house or stacks of used paint cans and dreams of a communist revolution.

Hoover and his industrialist buddies were livid over FDR's New Deal, not realizing it was a stopgap to let capitalism get its shit together.

[–] Swervish@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I work a full time job well above minimum wage and still can't afford a 2 bedroom lol

[–] any_memes_necessary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

same. the minimum wage should be a living wage but we're nowhere close

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Two bedroom?