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We ought to have a basic income, or at least retraining and job placement that's actually effective. When the country has a surplus of housing stock, threatenin
by prodigal_erik 16y ago
We ought to have a basic income, or at least retraining and job placement that's actually effective. When the country has a surplus of housing stock, threatening her with homelessness is a ridiculously cruel penalty for her inability to personally deduce what our wacky economy wants more of.
- lsc 16y ago>or at least retraining and job placement that's actually effective. Figure out how to do that, even at an exorbitant cost, and you have yourself quite a business model. As far as I can tell, it's not something that has been figured out yet, in the private or public sector.
- tsotha 16y agoRetraining for what? From what I can see retraining efforts are mostly a waste of money - you can apply for as many jobs as you want with a training certificate, but in this economy there are no jobs for people without actual experience.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoYou know, if she wants to postpone homelessness, she could also sell her "breathtaking piece of property overlooking the sound" with a "lighthouse garret atop the house" and move into a studio apt near a bigger city.
- bsaunder 16y agoI'm not sure she and her husband would make it past a credit/employment check to satisfy a landlord.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoOn a 12 month lease, landlords tend to accept a bank statement showing $18x monthly rent in lieu of good credit/employment. Assuming the Seattle area is just as expensive as the NY area, she would only need to have $18k equity in the house to meet that bar.