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> Being poor is now almost impossible due to astronomic rent. Did you mean to say "Being poor is now almost assured due to astronomic rent"?

• unclebucknasty 9y ago
  I think GP meant that subsisting as a poor person is impossible (or nearly so), due to astronomic rents.
  • 131012 9y ago
    The comment is interesting, because it proposes that an engineer with a 100k salary is now taught as somewhat poor. Hence the impossibility of being working class poor. I'm from a G7 country and still, 100k a year is understood here as being rich. Call it the Silicon Valley distortion maybe?
    • sjg007 9y ago
      A family of 4 living in San Mateo county making $105k is considered low income by HUD.
      • RickJWagner 9y ago
        Wow.