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Because people are willing to work for wages that can't buy them the shittiest home within a reasonable commute to their office. If people were more willing to
by firstplacelast 7y ago
Because people are willing to work for wages that can't buy them the shittiest home within a reasonable commute to their office.
If people were more willing to die, unionize, or advocate for a mediocre life, this wouldn't happen.
If you're working for less than it takes to buy the shittiest home in your city, you are exacerbating inequality and thus making the world worse. Better to sit on the sidewalk until you're dead.
- reificator 7y ago> If you're working for less than it takes to buy the shittiest home in your city, you are exacerbating inequality and thus making the world worse. Better to sit on the sidewalk until you're dead. I'm not normally one for this term, but this has to be the pinnacle of blaming the victim.
- psychometry 7y agoTrue, but it's also a historical reality that in the early 20th century that's exactly what happened to usher in labor laws that we enjoy today.
- esotericn 7y agoDisagree. I consider it a mass delusion that everyone seems to think you either live in the Big City(tm) or your life doesn't matter. IMO it's the opposite. Living in a pokey flat that's not yours is giving up your dignity. Even in SF or London or whatever.