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The cost of rent has increased as a percentage of income. People aren't choosing to not have kids just so they can eat avocado toast.
by chillwaves 6y ago
The cost of rent has increased as a percentage of income.
People aren't choosing to not have kids just so they can eat avocado toast.
- keiferski 6y agoThe cost of renting what? It used to be considered normal for multiple people to share a room and for children to live with their parents (and grandparents) all under one roof until they got married. Don’t get me wrong - I prefer living alone to having roommates, and certainly prefer having my own private room to sharing it with multiple other people. But this is a very modern expectation. If it were normal for 3-4 people to share a room (as was common in the past), I imagine rent prices would actually be lower today than historically. In any case, rent is really only overinflated in coastal megacities. And rent wasn’t really my main target: there are a whole lot of modern consumption activities considered ‘essential’ which really aren’t in any sense, but have simply become social expectations.