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>In the US, trading a very long commute for lower housing costs is widely understood and socially acceptable, I wonder why trading a tiny space for low rent and
by MickerNews 7y ago
>In the US, trading a very long commute for lower housing costs is widely understood and socially acceptable, I wonder why trading a tiny space for low rent and a short commute isn’t.
Because it's a race to the bottom. In EU society minimum standards of accommodation are socially acceptable. Allowing people to exploit the desperate to all possible extents is anathema to any humane values.
Japan is already a caricature of extremist employee exploitation. It's not something to emulate. I wonder why such a basic observation of the situation isn't obvious to people "in the US".
- s_m_t 7y agoI'd gladly trade the shared 900sq ft I pay ~$400 to rent for something smaller but as far as I can tell I can't really rent anything cheaper in the entire united states. My roommate and I don't even know what to do with our living room. Spend money filling up a space we don't actually care about? Nah, we've just been collecting free shit to throw in there because we really don't care. Thanks for keeping me from being 'exploited' though.
- MickerNews 7y agoThere will always be someone who's happy to trade their self-respect for some immediate comfort. Should that mean that we always should choose that particular point as our baseline? Just because you can choose to tolerate some arbitrary shittiness, doesn't mean that everyone else in society should have to suffer your personal shithole.
- s_m_t 7y agohahaha wtf